“Was he balked by silence? He kneeled long,
And saw love in a dark crown
Of thorns blazing, and a winter tree
Golden with fruit of a man's body.”
"In a Country Church"
Song at the Year's Turning (1955)
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“Every noble crown is, and on earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.”
Bk. III, ch. 7.
1840s, Past and Present (1843)
“One winter night when he was a boy … he first saw a ring around the moon.”
Bk. 1, Ch. 1
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament (1981)
Context: One winter night when he was a boy … he first saw a ring around the moon. He stared up at it, immense, icy, half as wide as the night sky, and grew certain that it could only mean the End of the World. He waited thrilled in that suburban yard for the still night to break apart in apocalypse, all the while knowing in his heart that it would not: that there is nothing in this world not proper to it and that it contains no such surprises.
“The kingliest kings are crowned with thorn.”
The kingliest Kings, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Song Silence is Golden http://www.lyricsdownload.com/tremeloes-silence-is-golden-lyrics.html
English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs