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5 Quotes for 'Linnets' in the Database.
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Linnets Quotes
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Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat?
Loves of his own, and raptures swell the note.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 33)
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Perch'd on the cedar's topmost bough,
And gay with gilded wings,
Perchance the patron of his vow,
Some artless linnet sings.
Author: William Shenstone
Source: Valentine's Day
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I do sing because I must,
And pipe but as the linnets sing.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: In Memoriam (pt. XXI, st. 6)
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Linnets . . . sit
On the dead tree, a dull despondent flock.
Author: James Thomson (1)
Source: Seasons--Autumn (l. 974)
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Hail to thee, far above the rest
In joy of voice and pinion!
Thou, linnet! in thy green array,
Presiding spirit here to-day,
Dost lead the revels of the May;
And this is thy dominion.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: The Green Linnet
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