Heathen

Famous quotes containing the word heathen:

“Quaint, outlandish heathen gods
Black men fashion out of rods,”
—Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

“I want to hear the chanting
Around a heathen fire
Of a strange black race.”
—Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902–1981)

“So stick up ivy and the bays,
And then restore the heathen ways,
Green will remind you of the Spring,
Though this great day denies the thing,
And mortifies the earth, and all,
But your wild revels, and loose hall.”
—Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)