Famous quotes containing the words islands, march, solomon and/or converse:
“Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not let a couple of Irishmen have a private sparring- match on one of them, as it is a government monopoly; all the great seaports are in a boxing attitude, and you must sail prudently between two tiers of stony knuckles before you come to feel the warmth of their breasts.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our
vines have tender grapes.”
—Bible: Hebrew The Song of Solomon (l. II, 15)
“Lately in converse with a New York alec
About the new school of the pseudo-phallic ...”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)