Famous quotes containing the words white and/or river:
“On white linen the silk
of gray shadows ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Hard by the lilied Nile I saw
A duskish river dragon stretched along.
The brown habergeon of his limbs enamelled
With sanguine alamandines and rainy pearl:
And on his back there lay a young one sleeping,
No bigger than a mouse;”
—Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849)