Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or roots:
“A low man
will trade his shawl
for an ox
in the dead of winter,
looking at the breasts
of that dusky girl
as if theyre glowing coals.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“Now fades the lasts long streak of snow,
Now burgeons every maze of quick
About the flowering squares, and thick
By ashen roots the violets blow.”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)