Tropic Quotes
More Tropic Quotes
Midwinter Spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic.
— 1942 Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.1.
Under the tropic is our language spoke,And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.
Edmund Waller— Upon the Death of the Lord Protector; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Beside The grim old sea-king sits his bride, A sun-land blossom, rudely torn From tropic forests to be worn Above as stern a breast as e'er Stood king at sea or anywhere.
joaquin miller— III, p. 22. (The Ship in the Desert (1875))
