Maiden

Famous quotes containing the word maiden:

    Then louder cry’d the Clerk Colvill,
    O sairer, sairer akes my head;
    And sairer, sairer ever will,
    The maiden crys, ‘till you be dead.
    Unknown. Clerk Colvill (l. 33–36)

    This is the maiden all forlorn
    That milked the cow with the crumpled horn
    Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 22–23)

    The Maiden caught me in the Wild,
    Where I was dancing merrily;
    She put me into her Cabinet
    And Lock’d me up with a golden Key.
    William Blake (1757–1827)