Azure

Famous quotes containing the word azure:

    When Britain first, at Heaven’s command,
    Arose from out the azure main,
    This was the charter of her land,
    And guardian angels sung the strain:
    Rule, Britannia! Britannia rules the waves!
    Britons never shall be slaves.
    James Thomson (1700–1748)

    All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Underneath Day’s azure eyes,
    Ocean’s nursling, Venice lies,—
    A peopled labyrinth of walls,
    Amphitrite’s destined halls,
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)