Robin Hood Road

Famous quotes containing the words robin hood, robin, hood and/or road:

    ‘Lay me a green sod under my head,
    And another at my feet;
    And lay my bent bow at my side,
    Which was my music sweet;
    And make my grave of gravel and green,
    Which is most right and meet.
    —Unknown. Robin Hood’s Death (l. 65–70)

    It’s June in January because I’m in love.
    —Leo Robin (1900–1984)

    We thought her dying when she slept,
    And sleeping when she died.
    —Thomas Hood (1799–1845)

    There was now no road further, the river being the only highway, and but half a dozen log huts, confined to its banks, to be met with for thirty miles. On either hand, and beyond, was a wholly uninhabited wilderness, stretching to Canada.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)