Azure Quote by Joanna Baillie

“Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye”

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It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.

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Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses…

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The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.

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If my heart were not light, I would die.

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Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.

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Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round his window…

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Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.

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My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

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Still on it creeps, Each little moment at another's heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as…

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War is honorable In those who do their native rights maintain; In those whose swords an iron barrier are Between the lawless spoiler and…

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Me care for te laws when te laws care for me.

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But dreams full oft are found of real events The form and shadows.

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“She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above.”

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The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full…

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To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the…

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Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.

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Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky; The May-thorn greening in the nook; The minnows sporting in the brook;…

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Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli.

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If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To accomplish so resolute an action, you have to stake your life, giving no thought to personal gain or loss. You have to turn into a dragon and stir up a whirlwind, tear the dark, brooding…

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At Last It's a perfect winter day. No wind. No Arctic freeze. Cloudless azure sky. A day to fly. Snow drapes the mountain like ermine, fabulous feather- light powder coaxing me to flee the confines of my room, brave the mostly plowed road up to the closest ski resort. To run from the cloying silence connected Mom and Dad, into…

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Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth…

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Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

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I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. And from the inside, too, I'd duplicate Myself, my lamp, an apple on a plate: Uncurtaining the night, I'd let dark glass Hang all the furniture above the…

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There were so many miracles at work: that a blossom might become a peach, that a bee could make honey in its thorax, that rain might someday fall. I thought then about the seasons changing, and in the gray of night I could almost will myself to see the azure sky, the gold of the maple leaves, the crimson of…

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