Isle Migratory Bird

Famous quotes containing the words isle and/or bird:

    “She carries in the dishes,
    And lays them in a row.
    To an isle in the water
    With her would I go.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “but as an Eagle
    His cloudless thunderbolted on thir heads.
    So vertue giv’n for lost,
    Deprest, and overthrown, as seem’d,
    Like that self-begott’n bird
    In the Arabian woods embost,
    That no second knows nor third,
    And lay e’re while a Holocaust,
    From out her ashie womb now teem’d
    Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most
    When most unactive deem’d,
    And though her body die, her fame survives,
    A secular bird ages of lives.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)