“ Then lady Cynthia, mistress of the shade, Goes, with the fashionable owls, to bed. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
- 3.3K
“ It is the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman Which gives the stern'st good-night. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 917
“ St Agnes' Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold. ”
- John Keats- Copy
- 144
“ The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen, Did cause their clergy, with lustrations.... The round-fac'd prodigy t' avert, From doing town or country hurt. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Top management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is. ”
- Robert Townsend- Copy
- 3.8K
“ There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard. ”
- Edward Lear- Copy
- 454
“ And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart. ”
- Edward Lear- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl very gravely got down from his perch, Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic with a glance analytic. ”
- James Thomas Field- Copy
- 793
“ The crow wish'd everything was black, the owl, that every thing was white. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
- 2.9K
“ A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird? ”
- Edward Hersey Richards- Copy
- 1.3K
“ A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
- 2.5K
“ If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the duty of choosing between the natural way of my forefathers and that of the… present way of civilization, I would, for its welfare, unhesitatingly set that child's feet in the path of my forefathers… ”
- Tom Brown Jr.- Copy
- 975
“ Come, now a roundel and a fairy song; Then, for the third part of a minute, hence — Some to kill canters in the musk-rose buds, Some war with reremice for their leathren wings, To make my small elves coats, and some keep back The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders At our quaint spirits. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.8K
“ When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-who; Tu-whit, tu-who: a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 617
“ When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring sail goes round; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
- 2K
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