Sculptured Quotes
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Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.
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More Sculptured Quotes
Her fist of a face died clenched on a round pain; And sculptured Ann is seventy years of stone.
— 1939 'After the Funeral'.
A lady 'twixt two knights' stone effigies, And every day in dusky glory steeps Their sculptured slumber of five centuries.
Emma Lazarus— St Michael's Chapel
To the quick brow Fame grudges her best wreath While the quick heart to enjoy it throbs beneath: On the dead forehead's sculptured marble shown, Lo, her choice crown its flowers are also stone.
— John James Piatt, The Guerdon.
Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.
william cullen bryant— William Cullen Bryant, A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson.
Round and round, like a dance of snow In a dazzling drift, as its guardians, go Floating the women faded for ages, sculptured in stone on the poet's pages.
Robert Browning— Women and Roses.
Loveliest of lovely things are they,On earth, that soonest pass away.The rose that lives its little hourIs prized beyond the sculptured flower.
william cullen bryant— A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson, st. 3 (1828).
To the quick brow Fame grudges her best wreath While the quick heart to enjoy it throbs beneath: On the dead forehead's sculptured marble shown, Lo, her choice crown—its flowers are also stone.
— John James Piatt, The Guerdon.
sculptured in stone on the poet's pages.
— Robert Browning, "Women and Roses", in Men and Women (1855)
