Famous quotes containing the word bower:
“Adam and Eve, according to the fable, wore the bower before other clothes. Man wanted a home, a place of warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Quoth she, I have loved thee, Little Musgrave,
Full long and many a day;
So have I loved you, faire lady,
Yet never a word durst I say.
I have a bower at Bucklesfordbery,
Full daintyly it is deight;
If thou wilt wend thither, thou Little Musgrave,
Thous lig in mine armes all night.”
—Unknown. Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard (l. 1724)