Sweetest

Famous quotes containing the word sweetest:

“To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation’s sweetest dreams of itself.”
—Leonard Cohen (b. 1934)

“What shall I give my children? who are poor,
Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land,
Who are my sweetest lepers....”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“Green grow the rashes, O;
Green grow the rashes, O;
The sweetest hours that e’er I spend,
Are spent amang the lasses, O.”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)