London Country South

Famous quotes containing the words london, country and/or south:

    “Our haughty life is crowned with darkness,
    Like London with its own black wreath,”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “My country is bleeding, my people are perishing around me. But I feel as a South Carolinian, I am bound to tell the North, go on! go on! Never falter, never abandon the principles which you have adopted.”
    —Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)

    “In the far South the sun of autumn is passing
    Like Walt Whitman walking along a ruddy shore.
    He is singing and chanting the things that are part of him,
    The worlds that were and will be, death and day.
    Nothing is final, he chants. No man shall see the end.
    His beard is of fire and his staff is a leaping flame.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)