Town Mouse Country

Famous quotes containing the words town, mouse and/or country:

    “The time you won your town the race
    We chaired you through the market-place;
    Man and boy stood cheering by,
    And home we brought you shoulder-high.”
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

    “When out an old mouse bolted in the wheats
    With all her young ones hanging at her teats;”
    —John Clare (1793–1864)

    “And we may be led, then, upward through more
    Powerful forms of poetry, past columns
    With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference.
    Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms
    Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)