Herbert River/2010-2011 Queensland Floods

Famous quotes containing the words herbert, river and/or floods:

    “Only if loves fire with the breath
    Of life be kindled, I doubt,
    With our last air ‘twill be breath’d out,
    And quenched with the cold of death.”
    —Edward Herbert (1583–1648)

    “Up a lazy river by the old mill run, that lazy, lazy river in the noonday sun.”
    —Sidney Arodin, U.S. songwriter. “Lazy River,” Peer International Corp. (1931)

    “And to your more bewitching, see the proud,
    Plump bed bear up, and swelling like a cloud,
    Tempting the two too modest; can
    Ye see it brustle like a swan,
    And you be cold
    To meet it when it woos and seems to fold
    The arms to hug you? Throw, throw
    Yourselves into the mighty overflow
    Of that white pride, and drown
    The night with you in floods of down.”
    —Robert Herrick (1591–1674)