Autumn Dowie Silver

Famous quotes containing the words autumn, dowie and/or silver:

    “It is enough
    To smell, to crumble the dark earth,
    While the robin sings over again
    Sad songs of Autumn mirth.”
    —Edward Thomas (1878–1917)

    ““O haud your tongue, my father dear,
    An’ dinna grieve your Sarah;
    A better lord was never born
    Than him I lost on Yarrow.”
    —Unknown. The Dowie Houms o’ Yarrow (l. 53–56)

    “On the bare upland pasture there had spread
    O’ernight ‘twixt mullein stalks a wheel of thread
    And straining cables wet with silver dew.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)