Famous quotes containing the word wash:
“I have since written what no tide
Shall ever wash away, what men
Unborn shall read oer ocean wide
And find Ianthes name agen.”
—Walter Savage Landor (17751864)
“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)
“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-Beloveds am, so he is mine.”
—Francis Quarles (15921644)
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