Savage River

Famous quotes containing the words savage and/or river:

“O what a thing is age! Death without death’s quiet.”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

“Hard by the lilied Nile I saw
A duskish river dragon stretched along.
The brown habergeon of his limbs enamelled
With sanguine alamandines and rainy pearl:
And on his back there lay a young one sleeping,
No bigger than a mouse;”
—Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849)