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“Sancta Maria ad Nives.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: name of the basilica dedicated to Our Lady, now known as Santa Maria Maggiora
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“As I saw fair Chloris walk alone,
The feather'd snow came softly down,
As Jove, descending from his tow'r
To court her in a silver show'r.
The wanton snow flew to her breast,
As little birds into their nest;
But o'ercome with whiteness there,
For grief dissolv'd into a tear.
Thence falling on her garment hem,
To deck her, froze into a gem.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: On Chloris walking in the Snow, in "Wit's Recreations", J.C. Hotten's reprint, p. 308 (1640)
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“Lo. sifted through the winds that blow,
Down comes the soft and silent snow,
White petals from the flowers that grow
In the cold atmosphere.”
George W. Bungay Quotes Source: The Artists of the Air
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“Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies,
Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies;
The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare,
And shed their substance on the floating air.”
George Crabbe Quotes Source: Inebriety
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“Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air
Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,
And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end.
The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet
Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit
Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed
In a tumultuous privacy of storm.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: The Snow-Storm
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“Come, see the north-wind's masonry,
Out of an unseen quarry evermore
Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer
Curves his white bastions with projected roof
Round every windward stake, or tree, or door.
Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work
So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he
For number or proportion.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: The Snow-Storm
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“Out of the bosom of the Air,
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
Silent, and soft, and slow
Descends the snow.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Snow-Flakes
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“Where's the snow
That fell the year that's fled--where's the snow?”
Samuel Lover Quotes Source: The Snow
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“Our Lady of the Snows.
[Lat., Notre Dames des Neiges.]”
Emile Nelligan Quotes Source: the title of a poem
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“But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest
concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
[Fr., Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan? C'estoit le plus grand
soucy qu'eust Villon, le poete parisien.]”
Francois Rabelais Quotes Source: Pantagruel (ch. XIV)
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“If but a dozen French
Were there in arms, they would be as a call
To train ten thousand English to their side,
Or as a little snow, tumbled about,
Anon becomes a mountain.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Life and Death of King John (Pandulph at III, iv)
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“Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night;
For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night
Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at III, ii)
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“O that I were a mockery king of snow,
Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke
To melt myself away in water drops!”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Richard at IV, i)
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“Lawn as white as driven snow,
Cyprus black as e'er was crow,
Gloves as sweet as damask roses,
Masks for faces and for noses,
Bugle bracelet, necklace amber,
Perfume for a lady's chamber,
Golden quoifs and stomachers
For my lads to give their dears,
Pins and poking-sticks of steel,
What maids lack from head to heel.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Winter's Tale (Autolycus at IV, iv)
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“But where are the snows of yester year?
[Fr., Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?]”
Francois Villon Quotes Source: Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis
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“Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow,
Filling the sky and earth below,
Over the housetops, over the street,
Over the heads of the people you meet.
Dancing,
Flirting,
Skimming along.”
J.W. (Joseph Warren) Watson Quotes Source: Beautiful Snow, sometimes claimed as written by John Whitaker Watson or James Warren Watson, known t
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Snow Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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