European Honey Bee

Famous quotes containing the words european, honey and/or bee:

    “No European spring had shown him the same intermixture of delicate grace and passionate depravity that marked the Maryland May.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “How oft when men are at the point of death
    Have they been merry! which their keepers call
    A lightning before death: O, how may I
    Call this a lightning? O my love! my wife!
    Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath,
    Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:
    Thou art not conquered; beauty’s ensign yet
    Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
    And death’s pale flag is not advanced there.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Like the bee that now is blown,
    Honey-heavy on my hand,
    From his toppling tansy-throne
    In the green tempestuous land—”
    —Edmund Blunden (1896–1974)