Crimson Quotes
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Like to Diana in her summer-weed, Girt with a crimson robe of brightest dye, Goes fair Samela; Whiter than be the flocks that straggling feed When wash'd by Arethusa Fount they lie, Is fair Samela.
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More Crimson Quotes
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Bible (Old Testament)— Isaiah 1:18.
He has gone to fish, for his Aunt Jobiska's Runcible Cat with crimson whiskers!
Edward Lear— 1871NonsenseSongs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets,'The Pobble Who Has No Toes'.
Let them bestow on every airth a limb, Then open all my veins that I may swim To thee, my Maker, in that crimson lake; Then place my parboiled head upon a stake, Scatter my ashes, strew them in the air Lord! since thou knowest where all these atoms are, I'm hopeful thou'lt recover once my dust, And confident thou'lt raise me with the just.
Montrose, James Graham, 1st Marquis of— 1650 'Lines Composed on the Eve of his Execution'.
My native heath is brown beneath, My native waters blue; But crimson red o'er both shall spread, Ere I am false to you, Dear land! Ere I am false to you.
samuel lover— 1845 'Dear Land' in The Spirit of the Nation.
We watched her come with subtle fireAnd learned feet,Stumbling among the lustful drunkYet somehow sweet.We saw the crimson leave her cheeksFlame in her eyes;For when a woman lives in awful hasteA woman dies.The jests that lit our hours by nightAnd made them gay,Soiled a sweet and ignorant soulAnd fouled its play.
Djuna Barnes— To a Cabaret Dancer
Scarce had the morning starre hid from the lightHeavens crimson canopie with stars bespangled,But I began to rue th' unhappy sightOf that faire boy that had my hart intangled;Cursing the time, the place, the sense, the sin;I came, I saw, I viewd, I slipped in.If it be sinne to love a sweet-fac'd boy,Whose amber locks trust up in golden tramelsDangle adowne his lovely cheekes with joy,When pearle and flowers his faire haire enamels;If it be sinne to love a lovely lad,Oh then sinne I, for whom my soule is sad.
richard barnfield— The Teares of an Affectionate Shepheard Sicke for Love, or the Complaint of Daphnis for the Love of Ganimede.
O rose, thou art sick!The invisible worm,That flies in the night,In the howling storm,Has found out thy bedOf crimson joy,And his dark secret loveDoes thy life destroy.
william blake— The Sick Rose
Skirting the rocks at the forest edgeWith a running flame from ledge to ledge,Or swaying deeper in shadowy glooms,A smoldering fire in her dusky blooms;Bronzed and molded by wind and sun,Maddening, gladdening every oneWith a gypsy beauty full and fine,—A health to the crimson columbine!
elaine goodale eastman— Columbine; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 124.
You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.
anna akhmatova— "You will hear thunder and remember me...", translated by D. M. ThomasThere will be thunder then. Remember me.
Say 'She asked for storms.' The entire
world will turn the colour of crimson stone,
and your heart, as then, will turn to fire."Thunder," translated by A.S.Kline
Ruin seize thee, ruthless King! Confusion on thy banners wait, Though fanned by Conquest's crimson wing They mock the air with idle state.
thomas gray— I, 1, Line 1.
Weave no more silks, ye Lyons looms, To deck our girls for gay delights! The crimson flower of battle blooms, And solemn marches fill the nights.
julia ward howe— "Our Orders" in The Atlantic Monthly (July 1861).
[Concerning an aurora, "vivid crimson ... indescribably rich and deep":] The white, rayless light of morning, seen when I was alone amid the peaks of the California Sierra, had always seemed to me the most telling of all the terrestrial manifestations of God. But here the mountains themselves were made divine, and declared His glory in terms still more impressive.
john muir— Travels in Alaska (1915), chapter 9: The Discovery of Glacier Bay
Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches you With a thousand memories, And asks you Beautiful, unanswerable questions.
Carl Sandburg— "Under the Harvest Moon" (1916)
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision …
Carl Sandburg— Interview with Frederick Van Ryn, This Week Magazine (January 4, 1953), p. 11. Sandburg previously used these words at a rally at Madison Square Garden, New York City (October 28, 1952), praising Adlai E. Stevenson during the latter's 1952 presidential campaign. Reported in The Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson (1955), vol. 4, p. 175.
Men look to the East for the dawning things, for the light of a rising sun But they look to the West, to the crimson West, for the things that are done, are done.
— Douglas Malloch, East and West.
As a pomegranate, cut in twain, White-seeded is her crimson mouth.
— Oscar Wilde — La Bella Donna della Mia Mente.
Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, Windsor Forest, line 141.
The crimson Moon, uprising from the sea, with large delight, foretells the harvest near.
— Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow, Select Poems, The Harvest Moon.
Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset's golden and crimson dyes: I look and a great joy clutches my throat! Plateau of roofs by canyons crossed: windows by thousands fire-furled O gazing, how the heart is lost in the Deepest City in the World.
— James Oppenheim, New York from a Skyscraper.
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty; Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips, and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
— Act V, scene 3, line 92.
Hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, scene 1, line 107.
And half in shade and half in sun; The Rose sat in her bower, With a passionate thrill in her crimson heart.
bayard taylor— Bayard Taylor, Poems of the Orient, The Poet in the East, Stanza 5.
The rosebuds lay their crimson lips together.
— Amelia B. Welby, Hopeless Love, Stanza 5.
Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
william cullen bryant— William Cullen Bryant, To a Water Fowl.
How sweet to move at summer's eve By Clyde's meandering stream, When Sol in joy is seen to leave The earth with crimson beam; When islands that wandered far Above his sea couch lie, And here and there some gem-like star Re-opes its sparkling eye.
— Andrew Park, The Banks of Clyde, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 123.
crimson clover I discoverBy the garden gate,And the bees about her hover,But the robins wait.Sing, robins, sing,Sing a roundelay,—'Tis the latest flower of SpringComing with the May!
dora read goodale— Red Clover; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 122.
crimson clover I discover By the garden gate, And the bees about her hover, But the robins wait. Sing, robins, sing, Sing a roundelay, 'Tis the latest flower of Spring Coming with the May!
— Red Clover; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 122.
