Flower Wreath Hill

Famous quotes containing the words flower, wreath and/or hill:

    ““Fenced early in this cloistral round
    Of reverie, of shade, of prayer,
    How should we grow in other ground?
    How can we flower in foreign air?
    MPass, banners, pass, and bugles, cease;
    And leave our desert to its peace!””
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    “But seldom the laurel wreath is seen
    Unmixed with pensive pansies dark;
    There’s a light and a shadow on every man
    Who at last attains his lifted mark—
    Nursing through night the ethereal spark.
    Elate he never can be;
    He feels that spirits which glad had hailed his worth,
    Sleep in oblivion.—The shark
    Glides white through the phosphorus sea.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid.”
    —Bible: New Testament, Matthew 5:14.