“Ah, minstrel song hath many wings!
From foreign lands its wealth it brings.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), Oh God, the God of Formation
Context: Songs and minstrels.
And the hymns of angels,
Will raise from the graves,
They will entreat from the beginning.
They will entreat together publicly,
On so great a destiny.
Those whom the sea has destroyed
Will make a great shout,
At the time when cometh
He, that will separate them.
“Ah, minstrel song hath many wings!
From foreign lands its wealth it brings.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
“An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave;
Legions of angels can't confine me there.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 89.
Honoré de Balzac book Pierrette
Aucun homme ne s'arrache aux douceurs du sommeil matinal pour écouter un troubadour en veste, une fille seule se réveille à un chant d'amour.
Source: Pierrette (1840), Ch. I: The Lorrains.
“Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory.”
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) English clergyman
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 218.
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
Commentary on the Psalms http://dhspriory.org/thomas/english/PsalmsAquinas/ThoPs0.htm , Introduction
Charles Henry Fowler (1837–1908) American bishop
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 537.
“I am yours. If you feed me garbage,
I will sing a song of garbage.
This is a hymn.”
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
"Pig Song" http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=21982 <br class="br">Selected Poems 1965-1975 (1976)