note quotes

Preface to aTwenty Volume Suicide Note.

-Jones
  Title of poetry collection.

Ask me no more whither dost haste The nightingale when May is past; For in your sweet dividing throat She winters, and keeps warm her note.

-Thomas Carew
  'A Song'.

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat. They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five-pound note. The Owl looked up to the Stars above And sang to a small guitar, 'Oh lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love, What a beautiful Pussy you are'.

- Edward Lear
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and  Alphabets,'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat'.

By the time you say you're his, Shivering and sighing And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.

- Dorothy ne  e Rothschild Parker
  Not So Deep as AWell,'Unfortunate Coincidence'.

As I came through the desert thus it was, As I came through the desert: All was black, In heaven no single star, on earth no track; A brooding hush without a stir or note; The air so thick it clotted in my throat.

-James pseudonym 'BV',ByssheVanolis Thomson
  The City of Dreadful Night, pt.4.

Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.

-William Carlos Williams
  The Desert Music,'The Orchestra'.