Green Grass

Famous quotes containing the words green grass, green and/or grass:

    “Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car,
    And driven the hamadryad from the wood
    To seek a shelter in some happier star?
    Hast thou not torn the naiad from her flood,
    The elfin from the green grass, and from me
    The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “I live in my wooden legs and O
    my green green hands.
    Too late
    to wish I had not run from youpollo,
    blood moves still in my bark bound veins.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread,
    Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon
    The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for dead
    Descry, and fix you prone in their revelling moon.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)