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“Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.”

May Home Eye Lasts Song Sweet Wings Thee His Eyes Sweetest Swans

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee.”

Heart Long Song Sweet Wings Spread Golden Thee Dove Tender Hearts Hatching

Book:The Poetical Works of G. H. With a Memoir of the Author, and Notes, by ... R. A. Willmott

Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. With a Memoir of the Author, and Notes, by ... R. A. Willmott

“They say the blues is sad, but when B.B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads her wings,' that don't sound too sad to me!”

Way Littles Sound Sweet Sad Angel Wings Spread Blues Music Little Angel

Author:Buddy Guy

“Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.”

White Sweet All Things Wings Fingers Tiny Rings Flight Gentle Delicate Catching Peas Tiptoes Sweet Peas

Book:Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard

Source: Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard

“Swift flies our time on pinions fleet, Like vapours on the breeze; The transient bliss we now call sweet, The passing moments seize. The gilded joy, the present hour, Soon wing themselves away; Departing like the fading flower That pleas'd us Yesterday.”

Moments Joy Hours Sweet Flower Wings Yesterday Passing Passings Bliss Our Time Breeze Transient Fading Gilded Departing Vapour Passing Moments

Book:Poems on Various Subjects

Source: Poems on Various Subjects

“How sweet the harmonies of the afternoon! The Blackbird sings along the sunny breeze His ancient song of leaves, and summer boon; Rich breath of hayfields streams thro' whispering trees; And birds of morning trim their bustling wings, And listen fondly--while the Blackbird sings.”

Song Morning Rich Tree Sweet Summer Bird Harmony Breaths Wings Ancient Streams Afternoon Breeze Sunny Whispering Boon Blackbirds

Book:Days and Hours

Source: Days and Hours

“It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free to cross back and forth between silence and word. Desire may also find itself so amputated by tradition and community that it wanders in a void with nothing to orient it, to shape or discipline it. Desire must find ways to navigate its bitter and sweet paradox: it moves toward but also always through and beyond every object.”

Way May Moving Desire Easy Community Silence Objects Sweet Discipline Shapes Bird Tradition Crosses Wings Caught Bitter Wander Paradox Void Twisted Back And Forth Navigate

Author:Wendy Farley

“Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing Goddess, to thy shrine we come. Thy sweet magic brings together What stern Custom spreads afar; All men become brothers Where thy happy wing-beats are.”

Men Together Joy Heaven Fire Magic Sweet Brother Beats Daughter Wings Spread Drunk Immortal Customs Sparks Goddess Advancing Afar Shrines Elysium

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.”

Heart Sound Sides Sweet Wings Depth Lips Lap Deep Love Absorbing Shrines Incense Love Lies Sweet Thoughts

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.”

May Sweet Devil Wings Flight Vampire Vampire Movie

Author:Anne Rice

“If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only because it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.”

Ifs Knows Way Light Fire Sweet Wings Butterfly Butterfly Wings

Book:All Souls Trilogy

Source: All Souls Trilogy