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)

    “Some say that ever ‘gainst that season comes
    Wherein our Saviour’s birth is celebrated,
    The bird of dawning singeth all night long:
    And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad,
    The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike,
    No fairy tale nor witch hath power to charm,
    So hallow’d and so gracious is the time.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)