Pearls

Famous quotes containing the word pearls:

    “When I was one-and-twenty
    I heard a wise man say,
    “Give crowns and pounds and guineas
    But not your heart away;
    Give pearls away and rubies,
    But keep your fancy free.”
    But I was one-and-twenty,
    No use to talk to me.”
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

    “Coal-black maidens with pearls in their hair,
    Knee skirts trimmed with the jassamine sweet,
    And bells on their ankles and little black feet.”
    —Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)

    “Instead of pearls a wrought clasp
    a bracelet will you accept this?”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)