Silver Laurel Leaf

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)

“Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay,
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)

“Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)