Heathen

Famous quotes containing the word heathen:

“I want to hear the chanting
Around a heathen fire
Of a strange black race.”
—Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902–1981)

“The heathen are come into thine inheritance,
And thy temple have they defiled.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“So stick up ivy and the bays,
And then restore the heathen ways,
Green will remind you of the Spring,
Though this great day denies the thing,
And mortifies the earth, and all,
But your wild revels, and loose hall.”
—Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)