lawn quotes

   Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?

- Matthew Arnold
  Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems,'Parting', l.19^20.

Out on the lawn I lie in bed, Vega conspicuous overhead.

-W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden
  Look, Stranger, no.2.

Like Rome, Nkongsamba was built on seven hills, but there all similarity ended. Set in undulating tropical rain forest, from the air it resembled nothing so much as a giant pool of crapulous vomit on somebody's expansive unmown lawn.

-William Andrew Murray Boyd
A Good Man in  Africa, ch.1.

A sweet disorder in the dress 400 Kindles in clothes a wantonness: A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction† A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility: Do more bewitch me, than when Art Is too precise in every part.

- Robert Herrick
  'Delight in Disorder'.

LawnTennyson, gentleman poet.

-James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
  Ulysses.

'Tis from high life high characters are drawn; A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.

- Alexander Pope
  Epistles to Several Persons,'To Lord Cobham', l.134^6.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. It combines the best features of that primitive form of cricket known asTip-and-Run with those of lawn tennis, Puss-in-the-corner and Handel's Messiah.

- George Bernard Shaw
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, With murmuring of innumerable bees.

-Tennyson
  The Princess, pt.7, added song, l.203^7.

How circumstantial reality is! Facts are like individual letters, with their spikes and loops and thorns, that make up words: eventually they hurt our eyes, and we long to take a bath, to rake the lawn, to look at the sea.

-John Hoyer Updike
  Self-Consciousness, I.'A Soft Spring Night in Shillington'.