Famous quotes containing the words british and/or soil:
“Gaze not on swans, in whose soft breast,
A full-hatched beauty seems to nest
Nor snow, which falling from the sky
Hovers in its virginity.”
—Henry Noel, British poet, and William Strode, British poet. Beauty Extolled (attributed to Noel and to Strode)
“An underground grower, blind and a common brown;
Got a misshapen look, its nudged where it could;
Simple as soil yet crowded as earth with all.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
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