“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.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 294.
“If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?”
Source: If You Could See Me Now
I Just Can't Stop Loving You
Bad (1987)
“While the battle rages loud and long,
And the stormy winds do blow.”
Stanza 1
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.”
"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!”
Song of a Man who has Come Through (1917)
