Famous quotes containing the words ancient, silk and/or road:
“Only the sound remains,
the distant thump of the good elephants,
the voice of the ancient lions
and how the bells
trembled for the flying man.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“Why silk is soft and the stone wounds
The child shall question all his days,
Why night-time rain and the breasts blood
Both quench his thirst hell have a black reply.”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
“The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
And the highwayman came riding
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The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.”
—Alfred Noyes (18801958)
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