Black Hawk County

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

    All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven
    ‘Tis gone.
    Arise, black vengeance, from the hollow hell!
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “What tumbling cloud did you cleave,
    Yellow-eyed hawk of the mind,
    Last evening? that I, who had sat
    Dumbfounded before a knave,
    Should give to my friend
    A pretence of wit.”
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    In the county there are thirty-seven churches
    and no butcher shop. This could be taken
    as a matter of all form and no content.
    Maxine Kumin (b. 1925)