Famous quotes containing the word joyous:
“So forth those joyous Birdes did passe along,
Adowne the Lee, that to them murmurde low,
As he would speake, but that he lackt a tong,”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?1599)
“If a joyous elephant should break forth into song, his lay would probably be very much like Whitmans famous Song of Myself. It would have just about as much delicacy and deftness and discrimination.”
—Willa Cather (18731947)
“In spite of all the learned have said,
I still my old opinion keep;
The posture, that we give the dead,
Points out the souls eternal sleep.
Not so the ancients of these lands
The Indian, when from life released,
Again is seated with his friends,
And shares again the joyous feast.”
—Philip Freneau (17521832)
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