Coverlet Quotes 

His thoughts, delivered to me From the white coverlet and pillow, I see now, were inheritances Delicate riders of the storm.
Hart Crane
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We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.

h. p. lovecraft

— "At the Root" (1918)

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Without the bed her other fair hand was, On the green coverlet; whose perfect white Show'd like an April daisy on the grass, With pearly sweat, resembling dew of night.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece (1594), line 393.

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