Wash

Famous quotes containing the word wash:

    As I ebb’d with the ocean of life,
    As I wended the shores I know,
    As I walk’d where the ripples continually wash you Paumanok,
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    Even like two little bank-dividing brooks,
    That wash the pebbles with their wanton streams,
    And having ranged and searched a thousand nooks,
    Meet both at length in silver-breasted Thames
    Where in a greater current they conjoin:
    So I my Best-Beloved’s am, so he is mine.
    Francis Quarles (1592–1644)

    by noon
    the whole city in all its corruption,
    all its shed blood the monsoon cannot wash away,
    has become a temple,
    fragile, insolent, absolute.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)