Dowie Silver Cup

Famous quotes containing the words dowie, silver and/or cup:

    ““O haud your tongue, my father dear,
    An’ dinna grieve your Sarah;
    A better lord was never born
    Than him I lost on Yarrow.”
    —Unknown. The Dowie Houms o’ Yarrow (l. 53–56)

    “Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote;
    Spread o’er the silver waves thy golden hairs,
    And as a bed I’ll take them, and there lie.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left for the others.”
    —Elizabeth Fishel (20th century)