solemn quotes

Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.

-Rochdale
^18  Of Edward Gibbon. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 3, stanza107.

The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is pastthere is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been!

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty'.

The deep division of prodigious breasts, The solemn slope of mighty limbs asleep.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne
  Poems and Ballads (2nd edn),'AveAtqueVale', stanza 6.

A solemn gladness even crowned The purple brows of Olivet.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 31, l.11^12.