Hum

Famous quotes containing the word hum:

“Buz, quoth the blue fly,
Hum, quoth the bee,
Buz and hum they cry,
And so do we:
In his ear, in his nose, thus, do you see?
He ate the dormouse, else it was he.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

“My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,
Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)