Bird Quote by Francis Thompson

“Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word, And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird.”

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And left the flushed print in a poppy there.

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Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.

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“The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To her who loved the rose.”

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“Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee Save Me, save only Me? All which I took from thee I did but take, Not…

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“ A Corymbus for Autumn How are the veins of thee, Autumn, laden? Umbered juices, And pulpèd oozes Pappy out of the cherry-bruises, Froth the veins of thee, wild, wild maiden. With hair that musters In globèd clusters, In tumbling clusters, like swarthy grapes, Round thy brow and thine ears o'ershaden; With the burning darkness of eyes like pansies, Like…

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But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still…

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Happiness is the shadow of things past, Wich fools still take for that which is to be!

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An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

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Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.

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“I fled Him down the nights and down the days I fled Him down the arches of the years I fled Him down the…

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The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

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Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before…

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Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain. She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly -the thought of the world's concern at her situation- was found…

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The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another…

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