Purple Quotes
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O columbine, open your folded wrapper, Where two twin turtle-doves dwell! O cuckoopint, toll me the purple clapper That hangs in your clear green bell!
jean ingelow— Jean Ingelow, Songs of Seven, Seven Times One.
That memorable day died in purple and gold, and just as the last traces of the sunset faded in the west and the star-lilies filled the sky, the full moon looked down over the rim of the valley, and the great rocks, catching the silvery glow, came forth out of the dusky shadows like very spirits.
john muir— "A Rival of the Yosemite: The Cañon of the South Fork of King's River, California" The Century Magazine, volume XLIII, number 1 (November 1891) pages 77-97 (at page 86)
There are purple grapes in the Land of Git-Thare.
sam walter foss— The Land of Git-Thare, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Along the river's summer walk, The withered tufts of asters nod; And trembles on its arid stalk The hoar plume of the golden-rod. And on a ground of sombre fir, And azure-studded juniper, The silver birch its buds of purple shows, And scarlet berries tell where bloomed the sweet wild-rose!
— [[John Greenleaf Whittier, The Last Walk in Autumn.
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold
lord byron— Lord Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib
Whether the color of your skin is black, white, yellow, brown or purple -- the extent of this tragedy is so incredibly devastating that we had to do something.
bert mccracken— Statement about Hurricane Katrina on website of The Used, reported in L. Martinez (September 10, 2005) "Rockers plug in for Katrina", Ventura County Star, p. 1.
By the waters of Life we sat together,Hand in hand, in the golden daysOf the beautiful early summer weather,When skies were purple and breath was praise.
thomas noel— An old Man’s Idyll, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
For the first time, I wasn’t embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only one rag as their property, but it happens to be beautiful and pink and silk, beauty doesn’t have to be separated.. ..I have always said that you shouldn’t have biases, you shouldn’t have prejudices. But before that (his trip to India around 1975, fh) I’d never been able to use purple, because it was too beautiful.
Robert Rauschenberg— p. 206 (Rauschenberg / Art and Live, 1990)
They make a fine purple colour by treating bilberry in the same way and mixing it with milk.
vitruvius— Chapter XIV, Sec. 2
He bore a simple wild-flower wreath: Narcissus, and the sweet brier rose; Vervain, and flexile thyme, that breathe Rich fragrance; modest heath, that glows With purple bells; the amaranth bright, That no decay, nor fading knows, Like true love's holiest, rarest light; And every purest flower, that blows In that sweet time, which Love most blesses, When spring on summer's confines presses.
thomas love peacock— Rhododaphne, Canto I, line 107.
Wondrous interlacement! Holding fast to threads by green and silky rings, With the dawn it spreads its white and purple wings; Generous in its bloom, and sheltering while it clings, Sturdy morning-glory.
helen hunt jackson— Helen Hunt Jackson, Morning-Glory; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 530.
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Destruction of Sennacherib, in Hebrew Melodies (1815).
Here is wine, Alive with sparklesnever, I aver, Since Ariadne was a vintager, So cool a purple.
john keats— 1818 Endymion, bk.2, l.441-4.
I send thee pansies while the year is young,Yellow as sunshine, purple as the night;Flowers of remembrance, ever fondly sungBy all the chiefest of the Sons of Light.
sarah doudney— Poem: Pansies.
One naked star has waded throughThe purple shadows of the night,And faltering as falls the dewIt drips its misty light.
james whitcomb riley— The Beetle.
Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spreadO'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend.
william somervile— Bk. II, line 79.
O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love.
thomas gray— I. 3, Line 16.
Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart Made purple riot.
john keats— Stanza 16. (The Eve of St. Agnes)
When next he came to me he was drunk royally drunk on many poets for the first time revealed to him. His pupils were dilated, his words tumbled over each other, and he wrapped himself in quotations as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of emperors.
rudyard kipling— The Finest Story in the World (1893).
The bolt of Cupid fell: * * * upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-1596), Act II, scene 1, line 165.
Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail! Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spread O'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way, And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend.
william somervile— William Somervile, The Chase (1735), Book II, line 79.
The gloaming comes, the day is spent, The sun goes out of sight, And painted is the Occident With purple sanguine bright.
— Alexander Hume, Story of a Summer Day.
To strew thy green with flowers; the yellows, blues, The purple violets, and marigolds.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre (c. 1607-08), Act IV, scene 1, line 15.
Or columbines, in purple dressed Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest.
william cullen bryant— William Cullen Bryant, To the Fringed Gentian.
Thou Royal River, born of sun and shower In chambers purple with the Alpine glow, Wrapped in the spotless ermine of the snow And rocked by tempests!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, To the River Rhone, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 673.
And o'er the hills and far away, Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she followed him.
— Alfred Tennyson, Daydream, The Departure, IV.
You should hear me on my own. It’s horrendous.I saw Deep purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous.’
angus young— 1983 Interview in West Hollywood, California (Sunset Marquis Hotel)
I never saw a purple Cow, I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow * I'd rather see than be one.
gelett burgess— Gelett Burgess, The Purple Cow.
