Turf Paradise

Famous quotes containing the words turf and/or paradise:

“Oh! snatch’d away in beauty’s bloom,
On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;
But on thy turf shall roses rear
Their leaves, the earliest of the year;”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“But ‘twas beyond a mortal’s share
To wander solitary there:
Two Paradises ‘twere in one,
To live in Paradise alone.”
—Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)