Green Isles

Famous quotes containing the words green and/or isles:

    “Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood,
    Even where horrible green parrots call and swing.
    My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The isles of Greece! the isles of Greece
    Where burning Sappho loved and sung,”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)