Hemisphere Snow Cover

Famous quotes containing the words hemisphere, snow and/or cover:

    “Rome, the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “Father,
    you died once,
    salted down at fifty-nine,
    packed down like a big snow angel,
    wasn’t that enough?”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Laid out for death, let thy last kindness be
    With leaves and moss-work for to cover me:
    And while the wood-nymphs my cold corpse inter,
    Sing thou my dirge, sweet-warbling chorister!
    For epitaph, in foliage, next write this:
    Here, here the tomb of Robin Herrick is.”
    —Robert Herrick (1591–1674)