Quotes of Thrush - somelinesforyou

“ Golden Bill! Golden Bill! Lo, the peep of day; All the air is cool and still, From the elm-tree on the hill, Chant away:.... Let thy loud and welcome lay Pour alway Few notes but strong. ”

- James Montgomery

“ And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, Hangs a thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three years. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ When rosy plumelets tuft the larch, And rarely pipes the mounted thrush. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young. ”

- William Morris

“ A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better. ”

- Robert Burton

“ Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak; That Latin was no more difficile That to a blackbird 'tis to whistle. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ In the thickets and the meadows Piped the bluebird, the Owaissa. On the summit of the lodges Sang the robin, the Opechee. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams, And tremble in the April showers The tassels of the maple flowers. ”

- John Greenleaf Whittier

“ I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after. ”

- Wallace Stevens

“ I do not know which makes a man more conservative — to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! ”

- Robert Browning

“ Nothing is so beautiful as spring — when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing. ”

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

“ Golden Bill! Golden Bill! Lo, the peep of day; All the air is cool and still, From the elm-tree on the hill, Chant away:.... Let thy loud and welcome lay Pour alway Few notes but strong. ”

- James Montgomery

“ And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, Hangs a thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three years. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ When rosy plumelets tuft the larch, And rarely pipes the mounted thrush. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young. ”

- William Morris

“ A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better. ”

- Robert Burton

“ Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak; That Latin was no more difficile That to a blackbird 'tis to whistle. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ In the thickets and the meadows Piped the bluebird, the Owaissa. On the summit of the lodges Sang the robin, the Opechee. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams, And tremble in the April showers The tassels of the maple flowers. ”

- John Greenleaf Whittier

“ I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after. ”

- Wallace Stevens

“ I do not know which makes a man more conservative — to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! ”

- Robert Browning

“ Nothing is so beautiful as spring — when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing. ”

- Gerard Manley Hopkins
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