Chimney Corner

Famous quotes containing the words chimney corner, chimney and/or corner:

    “Now he sings of Jacky Horner,
    Sitting in the chimney corner,
    Eating of a Christmas pie,
    Putting in his thumb, O fie!
    Putting in, O fie! his thumb,
    Pulling out, O strange, a plum.”
    —Henry Carey (1693?–1743)

    “The house had gone to bring again
    To the midnight sky a sunset glow.
    Now the chimney was all of the house that stood,
    Like a pistil after the petals go.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “And with the corner of a Creed,
    The more shall be your meed.”
    —John Skelton (1460?–1529)