Bird Quote by John McCrae Download Open image “Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street” — John McCrae ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bird Creeps Lilac Rain Restless Streets Village
“Sometimes on late summer nights, when the sky is perfect and our parents are in a good enough mood to let us, we meet… — Jacquelyn Eubanks Copy Share Image
“The scent of flowers grew stronger and came from all sides; the grass was drenched with dew; a nightingale struck up in a lilac… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“When, on a summer evening, the melodious sky growls like a tawny lion, and everyone is complaining of the storm, it is the memory… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the few whose… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Unnoticed, the passage has occurred; as I brood, autumn dusk dewdrops fall on my pillow. The voices of insects and the deer by the… — Princess Shikishi Copy Share Image
Its when the stars shine and the moonlight beams through the cloudy nights that the rain falls, on a night where the city lights… — Babloo Copy Share Image
“From the sound of pattering raindrops I recaptured the scent of the lilacs at Combray; from the shifting of the sun's rays on the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street...by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
“I thought of many an autumn I had known: Seemly autumns approaching deliberately, with amplitude. I thought of wild asters, Michaelmas daisies, mushrooms, leaves… — Elizabeth Enright Copy Share Image
“Men pass my grave, and say, "'Twere well to sleep, Like such an one, amid the uncaring dead!" How should they know the vigils… — John McCrae Copy Share Image
“That day of battle in the dusty heat We lay and heard the bullets swish and sing Like scythes amid the over-ripened wheat, And… — John McCrae Copy Share Image
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely… — John McCrae Copy Share Image
In Flanders fields the poppies blow, Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky, The larks, still bravely… — John McCrae Copy Share Image
“Bid them be patient, and some day, anon, They shall feel earth enwrapt in silence deep; Shall greet, in wonderment, the quiet dawn, And… — John McCrae Copy Share Image
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. — John McCrae Copy Share Image
“Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye… — John McCrae Copy Share Image
The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below — John McCrae Copy Share Image
And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start… — Red Auerbach Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“He unfixes the metal notch and slips his hand around the body of the bird. Feels its heat, its small heart beating. He stares… — Nina Schuyler Copy Share Image
I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great… — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway,… — Patrick MacGill Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment,… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
