Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
The First Quarrel, stanza VI., lines 3-4; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The lark is with triumphant song
Singing the rose-touched clouds among:
'Tis there that lighted song has birth,
What hath such hymn to do with earth?”
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
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“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)
Dafydd ap Gwilym (1320–1380) Welsh poet
Oriau hydr yr ehedydd
A dry fry o'i dŷ bob dydd,
Borewr byd, berw aur bill,
Barth â'r wybr, borthor Ebrill.
"Yr Ehedydd" (The Skylark), line 1; translation from Dafydd ap Gwilym (ed. and trans. Rachel Bromwich) A Selection of Poems (Harmondsworth, Penguin, [1982] 1985) p. 74.
Pete Seeger (1919–2014) American folk singer
Pop Chronicles, Show 33 - Revolt of the Fat Angel: American musicians respond to the British invaders. Part 1 http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19792/m1/, interview recorded 2.14.1968 http://web.archive.org/web/20110615153027/http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/john-gilliland/o-s.
“May these songs year after year be sweeter to sing among men.”
Apollonius of Rhodes book Argonautica
Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book IV. Homeward Bound, Lines 1773–1775 (tr. R. C. Seaton)
Masiela Lusha (1985) Albanian actress, writer, author
"Full Moon - A Siren's Song" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/full-moon-a-siren-s-song/ <br class="br">Drinking the Moon (2006)
“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Although it appears on U.S. postage featuring Angelou, this is actually a variant quote from the work of poet Joan Walsh Anglund. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Source: Postal Service releases Maya Angelou stamp with quote from another author, Josh Hicks, 7 April 2015, Washington Post, 9 April 2015 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/04/07/postal-serves-releases-maya-angelou-stamp-with-quote-from-another-author/,
“Only God singing this song of you… makes true light… somehow possible.”
Aberjhani (1957) author
(Angel of Mercy, p. 4).
Book Sources, The River of Winged Dreams (2010)
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