Famous quotes containing the words opening, theme and/or song:
“Seeing myself well lost once more, I sighed,
Where, where in Heaven am I? But dont tell me!
O opening clouds, by opening on me wide.
Lets let my heavenly lostness overwhelm me.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the horrors of life multiplied for some children, the image of childhood was increasingly exalted. Children became the last symbols of purity in a world which was seen as increasingly ugly.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
“And the song she was singing ever since
In my ear sounds on:
Stay at home, pretty bees, fly not hence!
Mistress Mary is dead and gone!”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (18071892)
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