Green River State

Famous quotes containing the words green, river and/or state:

    “In the cowslips peeps I lie,
    Hidden from the buzzing fly,
    While green grass beneath me lies,
    Pearled wi’ dew like fishes’ eyes,
    Here I lye, a clock-a-clay,
    Waiting for the time o’ day.”
    —John Clare (1793–1864)

    “Ask me no more: thy fate and mine are sealed;
    I strove against the stream and all in vain;
    Let the great river take me to the main.
    No more, dear love, for at a touch I yield;
    Ask me no more.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “Thou knowest in the state of innocency Adam fell, and what
    should poor Jack Falstaff do in the days in villainy?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)