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“When on a summer's morn I wake, And open my two eyes, Out to the clear, born-singing rills My bird-like spirit flies. To hear the Blackbird, Cuckoo, Thrush, Or any bird in song; And common leaves that hum all day Without a throat or tongue. And when Time strikes the hour for sleep, Back in my room alone, My heart has many a sweet bird's song - And one that's all my own.”

Heart Two Eye Spirit Song Born Hours My Own Sleep Rooms Common Clear Sweet My Heart Summer Singing Bird Tongue Strikes Throat Cuckoos Blackbirds Thrush

Author:W. H. Davies

“As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one gazes at the shining colors of flowers, doth one become dumbstruck before the Kingdom of the Creator.”

Song Creation Color Flower Bird Shining Creator Kingdoms Insects Summertime Cuckoos Bird Song

Author:Carl Linnaeus

“Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring, Grave as the urge within the honeybuds, It wounds us as we sing. Beauty is joy that stays not overlong. Clad in the magic of sincerities, It rides up in a song. Beauty imposes chastenings on the heart, Grave as the birds in last solemnities Assembling to depart.”

Heart Lasts Joy Song Beauty Magic Spring Bird Wounds Graves Urges Sincerity Reverence Solemnity Assembling

Author:Shaw Neilson

“That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.”

Men Should Matter Facts Song Individual Nature Wind Bird Perfection Infinite Environmental Wave Truthful Imitation Spontaneous Best Work Whispering Roaring Being Truthful Be Spontaneous

Author:Lydia M. Child

“Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.”

Soul Song Music Sea Strange Eternal Music Is Singing Bird Eternity Shore Shells

Author:J. G. Holland

“Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their songs from the shady trees; the lark soared high above the waving corn; and the deep buzz of insects filled the air.”

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird fly in the hole and sing a simple song like a tiny bell and let it ring.”

Heart Lying Song Simple Grief Cutting Sea Dog Wind Broken Bird Blow Wounds Tiny Rings Holes Bells Salt Cracked Clutch Stray Dogs

Author:Michael Leunig

“Winter has caused damage everywhere: meadow and forest are all grey, where before you heard many sounds. If I could see the girls play ball on the street, then bird song would come back. If only I could sleep through the winter! When I am awake I feel only hatred that his power is so far and wide. God knows, he even fights with May; I picked flowers where there is now snow.”

Ifs Knows Feels May Play Song Girl Fighting Sound Sleep Heard Streets Flower Bird Hatred Balls Winter Wide Snow Forests Awake Damage If I Could Grey God Knows Meadows Bird Song

Author:Walther von der Vogelweide

“The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.”

Love Heart Bigs Song Turns Voice Animal Cities Tree Cry Wind Bird Ears Filled Loved Ones Sidewalk City Life Big Cities Wind In The Trees

Book:Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1949-1959

Source: Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1949-1959

“Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.”

“Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.”

Writing Ends Sometimes Song Bird Killing Songwriting Feathers Writing Songs

Author:Tom Waits

“So many want to be lifted by song and dancing, and this morning it is easy to understand. I write in the sound of chirping birds hidden in the almond trees, the almonds still green and thriving in the foliage.”

Want Writing Stills Song Easy Sound Morning Tree Bird Green Dancing Almonds Foliage

Book:Sacraments of Desire

Source: Sacraments of Desire

“History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.”

World Art Song Literature History Gone Special Bird Destroyed Crafts Repeats Passed Away Repeating History History Repeats Itself Wild Birds

Book:Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

Source: Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

“I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward. I pray to them because I believe in their existence, the way their songs begin and end each day—the invocations and benedictions of Earth. I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.”

Way Believe Heart Ends Earth Song I Believe Prayer Existence Teach Praying My Heart Messages Bird I Believe In Each Day I Pray Benediction Invocation

Book:Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

“A delicate fabric of bird song Floats in the air, The smell of wet wild earth Is everywhere. Oh I must pass nothing by Without loving it much, The raindrop try with my lips, The grass with my touch; For how can I be sure I shall see again The world on the first of May Shining after the rain?”

World Trying Firsts May Earth Song Air Spring Bird Rain Shining Lips Smell Grass Delicate Wet Fabric Floats Raindrops After The Rain Bird Song

Book:Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

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