Red Undertail Coverts

Famous quotes containing the words red and/or coverts:

    “Thou art not fair, for all thy red and white,
    For all those rosy ornaments in thee.
    Thou art not sweet, though made of mere delight”
    —Thomas Campion (1567–1620)

    “On short, still days
    At the shut of the year
    We search the pathways
    Where the coverts were.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)