1st Earl of Clare

Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or clare:

    Brittle beauty that nature made so frail,
    Whereof the gift is small, and short the season,
    Flow’ring today, tomorrow apt to fail,
    Tickle treasure, abhorred of reason,
    Dangerous to deal with, vain, of none avail,
    Costly in keeping, passed not worth two peason,
    Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)

    We dreamed that a great painter had been born
    To cold Clare rock and Galway rock and thorn,
    To that stern colour and that delicate line
    That are our secret discipline
    Wherein the gazing heart doubles her might....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)