River
- La Madeleine (river), a river in the Territoire de Belfort département
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Famous quotes containing the word river:
“but we wish the river had another shore,
some further range of delectable mountains,”
—Robert Lowell (19171977)
“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 (18091892)
“It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.... As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood.”
—J. Enoch Powell (b. 1912)