Official Sung Verse

Famous quotes containing the words official, sung and/or verse:

    “I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.”
    —Vera Brittain (1893–1970)

    “My lute awake! perform the last
    Labour that thou and I shall waste,
    And end that I have now begun;
    For when this song is sung and past,
    My lute be still, for I have done.”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “When I a verse shall make,
    Know I have prayed thee,
    For old religion’s sake,
    Saint Ben, to aid me.”
    —Robert Herrick (1591–1674)