Famous quotes containing the words silver and/or gray:
“Guess now who holds thee?Death, I said. But,
there,
The silver answer rang, . . . Not Death, but Love.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861)
“In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay,
On sluggish, lonesome waters, anchord near the shore,
An old, dismasted, gray and batterd ship, disabled, done,
After free voyages to all the seas of earth, hauld up at last and
hawserd tight,
Lies rusting, mouldering.”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)