High Banked Clay

Famous quotes containing the words high, banked and/or clay:

    “Wedding is great Juno’s crown,
    O blessed bond of board and bed!
    ‘Tis Hymen peoples every town,
    High wedlock then be honorèd.
    Honor, high honor, and renown
    To Hymen, god of every town!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The rare original heartsblood goes,
    Spends on the earthen hide, in the folds and wizenings, flows

    In the gutters of the banked and staring eyes.”
    —Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

    “As ye of clay were cast by kind,
    So shall ye waste to dust.”
    —Thomas Vaux, 2d Baron Vaux Of Harrowden (1510–1566)