Earliest Long Count

Famous quotes containing the words earliest, long and/or count:

“Oh! snatch’d away in beauty’s bloom,
On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;
But on thy turf shall roses rear
Their leaves, the earliest of the year;”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“I long for truth, and yet
I cannot stay from that
My better self disowns,
For a man’s attention
Brings such satisfaction
To the craving in my bones.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“It is the poor man who’ll ever count his flock.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)