Black Hawk County

Famous quotes containing the words black, hawk and/or county:

    Street lamps come out, and lean at corners, awry,
    Casting black shadows, oblique and intense....
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    Merry Margaret,
    As midsummer flower,
    Gentle as falcon
    Or hawk of the tower:
    John Skelton (1460?–1529)

    But I would say to my fellows, once for all, As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)