Famous quotes containing the words sable hair, sable, hair and/or brush:
“My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.
The world shall find this miracle in me,
That fire can burn when all the matters spent:
Then what my faith hath been thyself shalt see,
And that thou wast unkind thou mayst repent.
Thou mayst repent that thou hast scornd my tears,
When Winter snows upon thy sable hairs.”
—Samuel Daniel (15621619)
“Underneath this sable hearse
Lies the subject of all verse:
Sidneys sister, Pembrokes mother;
Death ere thou has slain another,
Fair, and learned, and good as she,
Time shall throw a dart at thee.”
—William Browne (15911643)
“Hair of man, man-hair, hair of
breast and groin, marking contour as
silverpoint marks in cross-
hatching ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Little Orphant Annies come to our house to stay,
An wash the cups an saucers up, an brush the crumbs away,”
—James Whitcomb Riley (18491916)