Awake, My Heart, to Be Loved http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6639&poem=27759, l. 1-3. <br class="br">Poetry
“Awake,
Voice of sweet song! awake, my heart, awake!
Green vales and icy cliffs, all join my hymn.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
"Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni" (1802)
Context: Awake, my soul! not only passive praise
Thou owest! not alone these swelling tears,
Mute thanks and secret ecstasy. Awake,
Voice of sweet song! awake, my heart, awake!
Green vales and icy cliffs, all join my hymn.
“When did morning ever break,
And find such beaming eyes awake?”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
Fly not yet.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Marilyn vos Savant (1946) US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer
As quoted in What Type Am I? : Discover Who You Really Are (1998) by Renee Baron, p. 110
“What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.”
Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter
“While the world sleeps, darkness and silence are awake.”
Dejan Stojanovic book The Creator
“A Sleepday,” p. 53
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “The Whisper of Eternity”
“There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.”
Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…
“Christians, awake! salute the happy morn,
Whereon the Saviour of mankind was born.”
John Byrom (1692–1763) Poet, inventor of a shorthand system
A Hymn for Christmas Day (1750)
“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
Oh think not my Spirits are always as light.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
