Famous quotes containing the word splendour:
“Your eyes have pardoned our faults,
your hands have touched us
you have leaned forward a little
and the waves can never thrust us back
from the splendour of your ragged coast.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“thou art as Hesperus, giving
New splendour to the dead.”
—Plato (fl. 492–347 B.C.)