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«Woman of nerve and thought, Bring in the urn your power! By you is manhood taught, To meet the supreme hour»
«I have... had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls. As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out.»
«At 5:30 the morning shift of commissary workers arrive to stock the coffee urns, bring in fresh food and prepare for the daylong job of feeding the humans.»
«Child of a day, thou knowest not / The tears that overflow thy urn.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | Keywords: overflow, urn, urns
«Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful ev»
«Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood,The source of evil one, and one of good; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills,Blessings to these, to those distributes ills;To most he mingles both.»
«Oh, tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire»
«Can storied urn or animated bust / Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? / Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, / Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?»
Author: Thomas Gray (Poet) | Keywords: bust, mansion, provoke, storied, urn, urns
«Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.»
«If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies»