Robin Hood Bay

Famous quotes containing the words robin hood, robin, hood and/or bay:

    “‘Lay me a green sod under my head,
    And another at my feet;
    And lay my bent bow at my side,
    Which was my music sweet;
    And make my grave of gravel and green,
    Which is most right and meet.”
    —Unknown. Robin Hood’s Death (l. 65–70)

    “It is enough
    To smell, to crumble the dark earth,
    While the robin sings over again
    Sad songs of Autumn mirth.”
    —Edward Thomas (1878–1917)

    “But who would rush at a benighted man,
    And give him two black eyes for being blind?”
    —Thomas Hood (1799–1845)

    “The seagull’s wings shall dip and pivot him,
    Shedding white rings of tumult, building high
    Over the chained bay waters Liberty—
    Then, with inviolate curve, forsake our eyes”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)