England Quote by Anonymous

“The sun was a watery, baleful eye that glared down at the Thames through a bruised eyelid of rain clouds”

— George Mann

“And at my feet the pale green Thames Lies like a rod of rippled jade.”

— Oscar Wilde

“It's as though the shadows were an ocean, and the tide has gone out leaving a barren, rigid landscape of empty streets.”

— Lauren Oliver

“The river this November afternoon Rests in an equipoise of sun and cloud: A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroud Its passage. All seems…

— Cecil Day-Lewis

“Moonlight and high wind. Dark poplars toss, insinuate the sea.”

— Li-Young Lee

“Mine is the sultry sunset when the skies Tremble with strange, intolerable thunder: And at the dead of an hushed night, these eyes Draw…

— Lionel Johnson

“The river rises, flows over its banks and carries us all away, like mayflies floating downstream: they stare at the sun, then all at…

— Stephen Mitchell

“The sky was as blue and delicate as a porcelain teacup, and the hills rolled gently in all directions, intersected occasionally with the silver…

— Alyxandra Harvey

“The Thames Shouldered its way past Blackfriars Bridge, impatient with the ancient piers, no longer the passive stream that slid past Chelsea Marina, but…

— J.G. Ballard

“And I rose In a rainy autumn And walked abroad in shower of all my days High tide and the heron dived when I…

— Dylan Thomas

“The sun was strong, glinting off the bridge and hitting the river like shattered glass.”

— Nichole Bernier