“Thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, / In some melodious plot / of beechen green, and shadows numberless, / Singest of summer in full-throated ease.”
John Keats
“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.”
Victor Hugo
“Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.”
George MacDonald
“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise”
William Blake
“One of the wings was taken off and is lodged in the trees, and the rest of the plane impacted the ground about 100 feet further on.”
Carol Carmody
“And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.”
Bible
“The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a quill from an angel's wing.”
Henry Constable
