Famous quotes containing the word azure:
“When Britain first, at Heavens 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 (17001748)
“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 (18171862)
“Underneath Days azure eyes,
Oceans nursling, Venice lies,
A peopled labyrinth of walls,
Amphitrites destined halls,”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)
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