"The Song of the Camp" (1856), in The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor (1907), p. 86.
“Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the
Light —”
Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) British poet
"Three Poems of the Atomic Bomb: Dirge for the New Sunrise"
The Canticle of the Rose (1949)
Context: Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the
Light —
The marrow in the bone
We dreamed was safe... the blood in the veins, the
sap in the tree
Were springs of Deity.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) novelist
A Credo, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) writer and activist
O Black and Unknown Bards, st. 6.
Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917)
Thomas Browne book Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial
Source: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter V. Cf Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars: "Tiberius," Ch 70
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
Once Upon a Time There Was an Ocean
Song lyrics, Surprise (2006)
“And when I first saw you I first loved you
With a song that I sang to the fire in your eyes”
Hoyt Axton (1938–1999) American country singer
"Lion In The Winter" on Southbound (1975) · Performance with Linda Ronstadt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya2dSRcqLBE <br class="br">Context: And when I first saw you I first loved you<br>With a song that I sang to the fire in your eyes<br>But somebody told you that it wouldn't be easy<br>And you carried that lie for the devil to sing Some sail rivers deep and muddy some sail rivers clear and cold<br>But the river that I'm sailin' goes to sea<br>And sometimes I do grow weary sometimes I feel old<br>And sometimes I wonder if you think of me
