Red Velvet Cap

Famous quotes containing the words red, velvet and/or cap:

    “The frost was on the village roofs as white as ocean foam;
    The good red fires were burning bright in every ‘longshore home;
    The windows sparkled clear, and the chimneys volleyed out;
    And I vow we sniffed the victuals as the vessel went about.”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

    “Let the soil squeal I am the biting man
    And the velvet dead inch out.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “‘I have cap and bells,’ he pondered,
    ‘I will send them to her and die’;
    And when the morning whitened
    He left them where she went by.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)