Sir Thomas Robinson

Famous quotes containing the words sir thomas, sir, thomas and/or robinson:

    “Nothing on earth more would I have,
    Save that I have, to have it still.”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “Here lies the body of Sir John Guise.
    Nobody laughs, and nobody cries;
    Where his soul is and how it fares
    Nobody knows and nobody cares.”
    —Anonymous. From Frobisher’s New Select Collection of Epitaphs (c. 1791)

    “Over the water come
    Children from homes and children’s parks
    Who speak on a finger and thumb,
    And the masked, headless boy.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “Are we no greater than the noise we make
    Along one blind atomic pilgrimage
    Whereon by crass chance billeted we go
    Because our brains and bones and cartilage
    Will have it so?”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)