English Song Originally

Famous quotes containing the words english, song and/or originally:

    “Here tulips bloom as they are told;
    Unkempt about those hedges blows
    An English unofficial rose;”
    —Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)

    “But see, the Virgin blest
    Hath laid her Babe to rest:
    Time is our tedious song should here have ending;
    Heaven’s youngest teemed star,
    Hath fixed her polished car,
    Her sleeping Lord with handmaid lamp attending;
    And all about the courtly stable,
    Bright-harnessed angels sit in order serviceable.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    “Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)