Pleasance Upstairs

Famous quotes containing the words pleasance and/or upstairs:

“Our pleasance here is all vain glory,
This false world is but transitory;
The flesh is bruckle, the Fiend is slee:—
Timor Mortis conturbat me.”
—William Dunbar (c. 1465–c. 1530)

“After a while
it walks over and taps
on the upstairs window with a bunch
of red berries. Will he wake?”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)