Van Der Wel

Famous quotes containing the words van, der and/or wel:

    “I passed a tomb among green shades
    Where seven anemones with down-dropped heads
    Wept tears of dew upon the stone beneath.”
    —Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.

    AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)

    “Under the lindens on the heather,
    There was our double resting-place.”
    —Walther Von Der Vogelweide (1170?–1230?)

    “Men may divine and glosen up and down,
    But wel I woot, expres, withouten lie,
    God bad us for to wexe and multiplye:
    That gentil text can I wel understonde.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)