Silver Crow Pheasant

Famous quotes containing the words silver, crow and/or pheasant:

    “Walked forth to ease my pain
    Along the shore of silver streaming Thames,
    Whose rutty bank, the which his river hems,
    Was painted all with variable flowers,”
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    “The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark
    When neither is attended.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)