Lily Mortar

Famous quotes containing the words lily and/or mortar:

    “Happy ye leaves! whenas those lily hands,
    Which hold my life in their dead-doing might,
    Shall handle you, and hold in love’s soft bands,”
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    “For the first time I’m content to see
    What poor mortar and bricks
    I have to build with, knowing that I can
    Never in seventy years be more a man
    Than now a sack of meal upon two sticks.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)