Famous quotes containing the words pole, vault and/or stars:
“Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole!
To Mary Queen the praise be given!
She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,
That slid into my soul.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834)
“The constellated sounds
ran sprinkling on earths floor
As the dark vault above
with stars was spangled oer.”
—Robert Bridges (18441930)
“Rather than have it the principal thing in my sons mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.”
—Thomas Arnold (17951842)
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