crimson quotes

   Come now, and let us reason together, saith the L: 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)
ORDIsaiah1:18.

O rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

-William Blake
  Songs of Experience,'The Sick Rose'.

She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd. 458

-John Keats
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems, 'Lamia', pt.1, l.47^50.

In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast; In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'Locksley Hall', l.17^20.