Downy Quotes
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Malcolm! awake! Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, And look on death itself! up, up, and see The great doom's image!
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More Downy Quotes
Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, and look on death itself!
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act II, scene 3, line 81.
Aye, ye were blest with folly. Who may tell What strange conceits upon the earth were sown And gender'd by the fond garrulity Of your aereal music? Scatter'd notes, Half heard, half fancied by the erring sense Of man, on which they fell like downy seeds Sown by autumnal winds, grew up, and teem'd With plenteous madness.
hartley coleridge— Prometheus.
He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake.
robert frost— Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, stanza 3 (1923)
See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves And, heedless of censorious eyes, Pursue their unpolluted joys: No fears of future want molest The downy quiet of their nest.
lady mary wortley montagu— Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Verses, Written in a Garden, Stanza 1.
Thus do I live, from pleasure quite debarred, Nor taste the fruits that the sun's genial rays Mature, john-apple, nor the downy peach.
— John Philips, The Splendid Shilling, line 115.
So doth the swan her downy cygnets save, Keeping them prisoners underneath her wings.
william shakespeare— Suffolk, scene iii
Her treading would not bend a blade of grass, Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk!
Ben Jonson— Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd.
