| 17 Famous Quotes by James Montgomery
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“When evening closes Nature's eye,
The glow-worm lights her little spark
To captivate her favorite fly
And tempt the rover through the dark.”
Glowworms Quotes Source: The Glow-worm
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“A work of skill, surpassing sense,
A labor of Omnipotence;
Though frail as dust it meet thine eye,
He form'd this gnat who built the sky.”
Gnats Quotes Source: The Gnat
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“Fairest and best adorned is she
Whose clothing is humility.”
Humility Quotes Source: Humility
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“Nearest the throne itself must be
The footstool of humility.”
Humility Quotes Source: Humility
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“Joys too exquisite to last,
And yet more exquisite when past.”
Joy Quotes Source: The Little Cloud
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“Golden Bill! Golden Bill!
Lo, the peep of day;
All the air is cool and still,
From the elm-tree on the hill,
Chant away:
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Let thy loud and welcome lay
Pour alway
Few notes but strong.”
Blackbirds Quotes Source: The Blackbird
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“The Dove,
On silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.”
Doves Quotes Source: Pelican Island (canto I, l. 173)
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“The bird that soars on highest wing,
Builds on the ground her lowly nest;
And she that doth most sweetly sing,
Sings in the shade when all things rest:
In lark and nightingale we see
What honor hath humility.”
Larks Quotes Source: Humility
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“Nimbly they seized and secreted their prey,
Alive and wriggling in the elastic net,
Which Nature hung beneath their grasping beaks;
Till, swoln, with captures, the unwieldy burden
Clogg'd their slow flight, as heavily to land,
These mighty hunters of the deep return'd.
There on the cragged cliffs they perch'd at ease,
Gorging their hapless victims one by one;
Then full and weary, side by side, they slept,
Till evening roused them to the chase again.”
Pelicans Quotes Source: Pelican Island (canto IV, l. 141)
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“Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans;
High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.”
Pelicans Quotes Source: Pelican Island (canto V, l. 141)
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“The nursery of brooding Pelicans,
The dormitory of their dead, had vanish'd,
And all the minor spots of rock and verdue,
The abodes of happy millions, were no more.”
Pelicans Quotes Source: Pelican Island (canto VI, l. 74)
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“The violets were past their prime,
Yet their departing breath
Was sweeter, in the blast of death,
Than all the lavish fragrance of the time.”
Violets Quotes Source: The Adventure of a Star
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“Blue thou art, intensely blue;
Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?”
Gentians Quotes Source: The Gentianella
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“The Rose has but a Summer reign,
The daisy never dies.”
Daisies Quotes Source: The Daisy--On Finding One in Bloom on Christmas Day
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“There is a flower, a little flower
With silver crest and golden eye,
That welcomes every changing hour,
And weathers every sky.”
Daisies Quotes Source: A Field Flower
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“The tall Oak, towering to the skies,
The fury of the wind defies,
From age to age, in virtue strong.
Inured to stand, and suffer wrong.”
Oak Quotes Source: The Oak
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“If God hath made this world so fair,
Where sin and death abound,
How beautiful beyond compare
Will paradise be found!.”
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James Montgomery Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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