Bleak

Famous quotes containing the word bleak:

“Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds
Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about
There’s scarce a bush.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Go, birds of spring: let winter have his fee;
Let a bleak paleness chalk the door,
So all within be livelier than before.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)

“Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow;Mvainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)