“And in the ghostly palm-trees the sleepy tune
Of the quiet voice calling me, the long low croon
Of the steady Trade Winds blowing.”
Salt-Water Ballads (1902), "Trade Winds"
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English poet and writer 1878–1967Related quotes
“Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.”
Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661) Scottish Reformed theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 294.
“If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?”
Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now
Source: If You Could See Me Now
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I Just Can't Stop Loving You
Bad (1987)
“While the battle rages loud and long,
And the stormy winds do blow.”
Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) British writer
Stanza 1 <br class="br"> Ye Mariners of England http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Campbell/ye%20mariners_of_england.htm (1800)
“Sweet to me was not the voice of man,
But the wind's voice was understood by me.”
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet
"Willow" (1940)
Context: Sweet to me was not the voice of man,
But the wind's voice was understood by me.
The burdocks and the nettles fed my soul,
But I loved the silver willow best of all.
“Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me!”
D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
Song of a Man who has Come Through (1917)
