Robin Hood Ballads

Famous quotes containing the words robin hood, robin, hood and/or ballads:

    It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New Englander and the New Hollander, the Parisian and the Celt, the farmer and Robin Hood, Goody Blake and Harry Gill; in most parts of the world, the prince and the peasant, the scholar and the savage, equally require still a few sticks from the forest to warm them and cook their food. Neither could I do without them.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    It’s June in January because I’m in love.
    —Leo Robin (1900–1984)

    And then in the fulness of joy and hope,
    Seemed washing his hands with invisible soap,
    In imperceptible water.
    —Thomas Hood (1799–1845)

    I am hurt but I am not slaine;
    Ile lay mee downe and bleed a-while
    And then Ile rise and ffight againe.
    —Unknown. Sir Andrew Barton. . .

    English and Scottish Ballads (The Poetry Bookshelf)