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“Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away?”

Firsts May Stills Song Sky Color Spring Wings Speed Flight Southern Chill Blast Hue Bluebird

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of the tender sky and wistful soil. What a loss, I said, to coming generations of dwellers in the country--no bluebird in spring!”

Said Two Country Loss Environment Generations Sky Missing Summer Spring Blue Wings Soil Visible Embodiment Kindred Dwellers Bluebird

Book:Bird Neighbors - An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes

Source: Bird Neighbors - An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes

“Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.”

Years Littles Remember White Four Sky Tears Spring Blue Wings Clouds Grass Little Things Ducks Ponds Blue Sky White Clouds

Author:William Allingham

“All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.”

Water Air Sky Fields Lows Blue Green Wings South Golden Lakes Silver Autumn Fall Autumn Autumn Days Autumn Inspirational Green Fields Blue Water

Book:By the Shores of Silver Lake

Source: By the Shores of Silver Lake

“The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings.”

Looks Earth Happiness Vision Air Sky Spring Blue Wings Poetry Is Butterfly April Springtime Frail Like A Butterfly Butterfly Wings

Book:Joyce Kilmer

Source: Joyce Kilmer

“No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings.”

Needs Leader Sky Bird Wings Ladders Grim Baton

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground?”

Heart Eye Care Earth Sky Wings Despise Aspire Nests Pilgrim Ethereal Minstrels

Author:William Wordsworth

“Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take liberated flight toward the morning skies --Who hovers over life and understands without effort The language of flowers and voiceless things!”

Men Language Effort Morning Sky Fields He Man Flower Wings Flight Liberated Vigorous Serene Luminous Larks Voiceless Morning Sky

Book:Flowers of Evil and Other Works: A Dual-Language Book

Source: Flowers of Evil and Other Works: A Dual-Language Book

“Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.”

Men Light Spirit Dies Heaven Sky Angel Wings Rounds Lips Serpent True Or False Venomous

Book:Legends and lyrics: a book of verses

Source: Legends and lyrics: a book of verses

“World's flying like birds; my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night. And I'm in flight. The sky's a wheel, a merry-go-round of wings and snow and steel, and fire. We'll tread the sky, we'll ride the scarlet horses.”

World Light Night Cities Fire Sky Car Bird Horse Wings Rounds Flying Snow Flight Wheels Steel Fragments Merry Scarlet Merry Go Round City Lights

Author:Tanith Lee

“To the sky, I rise / Spread my wings, and fly / I leave the past behind / And say goodbye to the scared child inside / I sing for freedom, and for love / I look at my reflection / Embrace the woman I've become / The unbreakable lotus in me / I now set free”

Looks Children Past Behinds Sky Reflection Embrace Wings Scared Spread Goodbye Saying Goodbye Lotuses Unbreakable Leaving The Past Leave The Past Behind

Author:Christina Aguilera

“No, not under the vault of another sky, not under the shelter of other wings. I was with my people then, there where my people were doomed to be.”

People Sky Wings Shelter Doomed Vaults

Author:Anna Akhmatova

“Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry. To think, without desert of gentle deed And noble worth, to be advanced high, Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed, Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed.”

Source: Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetry

“When one that holds communion with the skies Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings.”

Ifs Water Sky Pure Angel Wings Communion Pure Water Angel Wings

Book:The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings

Source: The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings

“High in the sky is a bird on a wing Please carry me with you Far far away from the mad rushing crowd Please carry me with you.”

Sky Please Bird Mad Wings Crowds Far Away Rushing

Author:Tom Springfield

“I am iron butterfly ... / I am she/we / of flesh / and iron / and silk wings, / healing, flying / into a gentle blue sky.”

Healing Sky Confidence Blue Wings Flesh Flying Gentle Iron Butterfly Silk Blue Sky

Author:Janice Mirikitani

“So one time for my disillusioned artists, I hear ya Two times for the kid that air-guitars in the mirror Three times for the 9-to-5-in' bus ridin' dudes And four times for my dreamers, yo I'm just like you That's why I sing for my queens with their own pair of wings My brothers flyin' beside me, drama behind me Mama tried to find me, she inquired emphatically I was in the sky with all these other ghetto kids, defying gravity, uh”

“Birds were flying from continent to continent long before we were. They reached the coldest place on Earth, Antarctica, long before we did. They can survive in the hottest of deserts. Some can remain on the wing for years at a time. They can girdle the globe. Now, we have taken over the earth and the sea and the sky, but with skill and care and knowledge, we can ensure that there is still a place on Earth for birds in all their beauty and variety - if we want to... And surely, we should.”

Ifs Want Should Years Long Stills Care Earth Taken Sea Sky Skills Bird Wings Flying Variety Desert Continents Globes Hottest Antarctica Girdles

Author:David Attenborough

“My soule her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, Th' Almighty's Mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies.”

Soul Heaven Mystery Sky Wings Spread Volume Almighty

Book:Castara: The Third Edition of 1640; Edited and Collated with the Earlier Ones of 1634, 1635

Source: Castara: The Third Edition of 1640; Edited and Collated with the Earlier Ones of 1634, 1635

“Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod, The high, untrespassed sanctity of space, - Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.”

Mind Hands Earth Faces Space Sky Laughter Wings Touched Lifting Space Exploration Sanctity Air Force Surly Flying High

Author:John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

“Great master Lao Tzu says that 'The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.' Giving is indeed a very good source of happiness! One of the best treasures a man can give to someone is a good and sound idea; because birds can ascend into the sky only with wings, and men, only with good and sound ideas!”

Men Giving Doe Ideas Happiness Sound Sky Masters Source Bird Wings Very Good Possession Treasure Source Of Happiness Laos Lao Tzu

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I had that morning gone to say my farewells to Broadhurst and to the RAF. I had made a point of going to HQ at Schleswig in my 'Grand Charles.' Coming back I had taken him high up in the cloudless summer sky, for it was only there that I could fittingly take my leave. Together we climbed for the last time straight towards the sun. We looped once, perhaps twice, we lovingly did a few slow, meticulous rolls, so that I could take away in my finger-tips the vibration of his supple, docile wings.”

Made Together Lasts Morning Sun Gone Taken Sky Summer Wings Fingers Flight Aviation Last Time Farewell Coming Back Vibrations Docile Supple Meticulous Raf

Author:Pierre Clostermann

“And should I not, had I but known, have flung the machine this way and that, once more to feel it live under my hand, have sported in the sky and laughed and sung, knowing that never after should I feel so free, so sure in hazard, so secure, riding the daylight in the pride of youth? No more horizons wider than Hope! No more the franchise of the sky, the freedom of the blue! No more! Farewell to wings! Down to the little earth!”

Way Feels Should Littles Hands Earth Known Knowing Sky Youth Pride Machines Blue Wings Flight Secure Aviation Horizon Laughed Riding Should I Farewell Daylight Hazards Ever After

Author:Cecil Arthur Lewis

“Never deter from your path of determination and commitment. There may be obstacle but never fret. These obstacles are to make you more strong and committed to spread your wings of determination so that you can fly higher and higher to touch the sky of achievement.”

May Strong Path Sky Higher Achievement Commitment Determination Wings Committed Obstacles Spread

Author:Anil Sinha

“Don't forget that birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky.”

Forget Sky Broken Walking Bird Wings Flying Broken Wings Flying High

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Foot is superior to wing, because even when we have wings to fly in the sky, we still need feet so as not to crawl on the ground!”

Needs Stills Feet Sky Wings Superiors Wings To Fly

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Chaung Tzu was one of the most natural men the world has seen. He has not given any discipline, he has not given any doctrine, he has not given any catechism. He has simply explained one thing: that if you can be natural and ordinary, just like the birds and trees, you will blossom, you will have your wings open in the vast sky.”

Ifs Men World Given Natural One Thing Tree Sky Discipline Bird Ordinary Wings Doctrine Catechism

Author:Rajneesh

“Why? Why do humans always look to the sky? Why do you try so hard to fly when you don't have any wings? We'll run on our own legs.”

Trying Humans Looks Hard Running Sky Wings Legs

Author:Keiko Nobumoto

“Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.”

Inspirational Faith Fall Given Sky Bird Wings Circles

Author:Rumi

“On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.”

Sky Wings Finals Settling Feeding Mist New Day Lifting Arcs Spirals Descending Marshes Cranes

Book:A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

“Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that fills and fuels Emptiness. Free from the futile strivings and the cares which dim existence to a realm of mist, happy is he who wings an upward way on mighty pinions to the fields of light; whose thoughts like larks spontaneously rise into the morning sky; whose flight, unchecked, outreaches life and readily comprehends the language of flowers and of all mute things.”

Ifs Way Light Care Language Existence Morning Fire Sky Fields Flower Higher Wings Drinking Strive Flight Planes Atmosphere Realms Fuel Emptiness Mist Mute Larks Outreach Ambrosia Morning Sky

Book:Les Fleurs Du Mal

Source: Les Fleurs Du Mal

“No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the ground. [Saphira]”

Should Ends Dies Sky Wings Hunters Prey Eragon Saphira

Book:The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

“If you give me wings I will soar for you Even if this whole land Sinks down to the water If you give me a sword I will fight for you Even if this whole sky Shoots through with your light”

Ifs Giving Whole Light Fighting Water Sky Land Give Me Wings Soar Bleach Ichigo

Author:Tite Kubo

“To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in the night, a watermark, a violet sword, a meteor. The succulent sky had not only clouds, not only space smelling of oxygen, but an earthly stone flashing here and there changed into a dove, changed into a bell, into immensity, into a piercing wind: into a phosphorescent arrow, into salt of the sky.”

Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

“The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste nor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still-- off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed From one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.”

May Stills Two Together Moving Life Is Given Water Greater Sky Wind Masters Waste Standing Wings Speed Streams Climbs Haste Rushing Radiance Standing Still Oar Swiftness

Book:A Further Range

Source: A Further Range

“They were jet, those wings, as deep as the sky, as black as Eoduin's hair—no, blacker, for they were dull, unoiled. They gave off no sheen in the light, no gleam to the eye. They drank up the light and diminished it: they were wings of pure shadow.”

Light Eye Black Sky Hair Pure Shadow Wings Dull Drank Jet Gleam

Author:Meredith Ann Pierce

“Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch upon which to perch and rest their wings they might even come to resent having those wings. True freedom... true freedom may be having somewhere to return to.”

Ifs May Might Sky Return Bird Decided Wings Branches Destination Resent True Freedom

Author:Kazuya Minekura

“If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like the night with starry vigil and its head bent low with patience. The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish, and thy voice pour down in golden streams breaking through the sky. Then thy words will take wing in songs from every one of my birds' nests, and thy melodies will break forth in flowers in all my forest groves.”

Ifs Heart Stills Night Song Waiting Voice Silence Break Morning Darkness Sky Flower My Heart Lows Bird Wings Endure Forests Golden Streams Melody Bent Nests Grove

Book:Gitanjali - Song Offerings

Source: Gitanjali - Song Offerings

“The cats at the edge of the clearing were staring up at the sky, their eyes huge with fear. As he looked upward, Fireheart heard the beating of wings and saw a hawk circling above the trees, its harsh cry drifting on the air. At the same time he realized that one cat had not taken shelter; Snowkit was tumbling and playing in the middle of the open space. "Snowkit!" Speckletail yowled desperately.”

Eye Space Taken Saws Heard Air Tree Sky Middle Cry Huge Cat Wings Edges Staring Shelter Harsh Drifting Hawks Clearing Open Spaces Tumbling

Author:Erin Hunter

“i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay great happening illimitably earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any--lifted from the no of all nothing--human merely being doubt unimaginable You? (now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)”

Source: AnOther E.E. Cummings

“Night is done, gone the moon, gone the stars From the skies. Fades the black of night Comes the morn with rosy light. Fold your wings, go to sleep, Rest your gizzards, Safe you'll be for the day. Glaux is nigh. Far away is first black, But it shall seep back Over field Over flower In the twilight hour. We are home in our tree. We are owls, we are free. As we go, this we know Glaux is nigh.”

Source: Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection: Legend of the Guardians

“Why give up before we try Feel the lows before the highs Clip our wings before we fly away I can't say I came prepared I'm suspended in the air Won't you come be in the sky with me”

Giving Feels Trying I Can Air Sky Giving Up Lows Wings Prepared Suspended Clip Fly Away

Author:Alicia Keys

“as a bird swoops down on it's prey, and assumes this land bound wretch into heaven, so did romeo steal her lips before they fled him again. suspended somewhere between cherubs and devils, his quarry ceased to buck, and he spread his wings wide and let the rising wind carry them off across the sky, until even the predator himself had lost every hope of returning home. within that one embrace, [he] became aware of a feeling of certainty he had not thought possible for anyone - even the virtuous. with her in his arms, all other women, past, present, and future, simply ceased to exist.”

“Up on the roof Tatiana thought about the evening minute, the minute she used to walk out the factory doors, turn her head to the left even before her body turned, and look for his face. The evening minute as she hurried down the street, her happiness curling her mouth upward to the white sky, the red wings speeding her to him, to look up at him and smile.”

Looks Body Faces Used Turns Left White Walks Doors Sky Streets Minutes Mouths Red Wings Evening Look Up Factories Roof Speeding

Author:Paullina Simons

“It began as most thing begin. Not on a dark and stormy night. Not foreshadowed by ominous here comes the villain music, dire warning at the bottom of a teacup, or dread portents in the sky. It began small and innocuously, as most catastrophes do. A butterfly flaps its wings somewhere and the wind changes, and a warm front hits a cold front off the coast of western Africa and before you know it you’ve got an hurricane closing in. By the time anyone figured out the storm was coming, it was too late to do anything but batten down the hatches and exercise damage control.”

“Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against the heavy wall of wet leaves. Night crossing: black coal of dream that cuts the thread of earthly orbs with the punctuality of a headlong train that pulls cold stone and shadow endlessly. Love, because of it, tie me to a purer movement, to the grip on life that beats in your breast, with the wings of a submerged swan, So that our dream might reply to the sky's questioning stars with one key, one door closed to shadow.”