Bleak

Famous quotes containing the word bleak:

“Silent rushes the swift Lord
Through ruined systems still restored,
Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless,
Plants with worlds the wilderness;
Waters with tears of ancient sorrow
Apples of Eden ripe to-morrow.
House and tenant go to ground,
Lost in God, in Godhead found.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Go, birds of spring: let winter have his fee;
Let a bleak paleness chalk the door,
So all within be livelier than before.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)

“Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds
Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about
There’s scarce a bush.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)