Famous quotes containing the words silver, laurel and/or leaf:
“‘Guess now who holds thee?’—‘Death,’ I said. But,
there,
The silver answer rang, . . . ‘Not Death, but Love.’”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
“No more shall the war cry sever,
Or the winding rivers be red:
They banish our anger forever
When they laurel the graves of our dead!
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the Judgment Day:—
Love and tears for the Blue;
Tears and love for the Gray.”
—Francis Miles Finch (1827–1907)
“On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll;
On plastic clay and leathern scroll,
Man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed,
And lo! the Press was found at last!”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)