Flower Wreath Hill

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

“I say he’s bonny,
He’s the flower of them all,
My handsome, winsome Johnny.”
—Unknown. I Know Where I’m Going (l. 14–16)

“And before, with banner red,
Through the blizzard snow unseen,
All unharmed by hail of lead,
With a step like snow so light,
Showered in myriad pearls of snow.
Crowned in wreath of roses white,
Christ leads onward as they go.”
—Alexander Blok (1880–1921)

“The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)