“It felt like spring time on this February morning
In a courtyard birds were singing your praise…”
Sophie B. Hawkins (1967) American musician
Whaler (1994), As I Lay Me Down
“It felt like spring time on this February morning
In a courtyard birds were singing your praise…”
Sophie B. Hawkins (1967) American musician
Whaler (1994), As I Lay Me Down
Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (1981) American former actress and member by marriage of the British royal family
Engagement interview (November 2017)
“Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing
Should certain persons die before they sing.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
Saddam Hussein (1937–2006) Iraqi politician and President
President Saddam Hussein's Speech on National Day (1981)
“I wish it were as easy to buy time as it is to buy good books.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Caryl Phillips (1958) Kittian-British writer
On returning to St. Kitts during his 20s after emigrating to England with her parents during childhood in “'Lost Child' Author Caryl Phillips: 'I Needed To Know Where I Came From'” https://www.npr.org/2015/03/21/394127475/lost-child-author-caryl-phillips-i-needed-to-know-where-i-came-from in NPR (2015 Mar 21)
Algernon Charles Swinburne book Poems and Ballads
"A Match", line 1.
Poems and Ballads (1866-89)
Context: If love were what the rose is,
And I were like the leaf,
Our lives would grow together
In sad or singing weather,
Blown fields or flowerful closes,
Green pasture or gray grief;
If love were what the rose is,
And I were like the leaf.