13 quotes found
"A cow of purple is a joy forever. Its loveliness increases. I have never Seen this phenomenon."
"She lived unknown, that Cow, and so I never chanced to see; But if I had to be one, oh, The difference to me!"
"For the wind is in the gum-tree, And the hay is in the mow, And the cow-bells are a-calling "Come and see a Purple Cow!""
"Hence, vain deluding cows. The herd of folly, without colour bright, How little you delight, Or fill the Poet's mind, or songs arouse!"
"I dream of a purple creature Which is not as kine are now; And resembles cattle only As Cowper resembles a cow."
"Though cows of rare sorts I am buying, Not one breathes a balm to my breast. Oh, rapturous, rose-crowned occasion, When I such a glory might see! But a cow of a purple persuasion I never would be."
"Our most hearty laughter Something sad must rouse. Our sweetest songs are those that tell of Purple Cows."
"Full many a cow of purplest ray serene Is haply grazing where I may not see; Full many a donkey writes of her, I ween, But neither of these creatures would I be."
"Ask me no more. A cow I fain would see Of purple tint, like a sun-soaked grape -"
"Open then I flung a shutter, And, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a Purple Cow which gayly tripped around my floor."
"Corniferous wet-nurse of the human race, Calm, comfortable cow, with placid pride Yielding your offering at eventide"
"And to my horror down the lane Came a sight; I froze inside A spectral cow with purple hide."
"In Bovine majesty she stands, Her purple tail she swings, The amethyst cow"