TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew - Wanted to know what the River knew, Twenty Bridges or twenty-two, For they were young,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Thou stately stream that with the swelling tide 'Gainst London walls incessantly dost beat, Thou Thames, I say, where barge and boat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And there is London!--England's heart and soul. By the proud flowing of her famous Thames, She circulates through countless lands and isles… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
If you go to London now, not everything is beautiful, but it's amazingly better than it was. And the Thames is certainly… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Fifteen feet away, the wide River Thames rolled past, dark and deep and mysterious is the sullen-not-quite sunrise.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems,… — Robert Bridges Copy Share Image
The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There was no moon but the night sky was a riot of crisp and glittering autumn stars. There were streetlights too and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Trains are great dirty smoky things," said Will. "You won't like it." Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“The Thames Shouldered its way past Blackfriars Bridge, impatient with the ancient piers, no longer the passive stream that slid past Chelsea… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The Thames could be thought of as England's longest archaeological site, and no fewer than 90,000 objects recovered from its foreshore are… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
Everything I loved had been dead for two centuries - or, as in the case of Graeco-Roman classicism, for two milenniums. I… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image