“You said in our old ash-tree a bird had built its nest;
Perhaps this very linnet has there its place of rest.
Now who will keep his little ones when night begins to fall?
They have no other shelter, and they will perish all.
There'll be no more sweet singing within that lonely grove;
Now, Henry, free your prisoner, I pray you, for my love.
Our father is a soldier, and in some distant war
He too might be a prisoner in foreign lands afar.”
The Prisoner
Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836)
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Invitation to Love, in the 1913 collection of his work, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Source: APTN report, January 2002 http://www.khoisanpeoples.org/news/san-news-05-09-30.htm
Un soir, l'âme du vin chantait dans les bouteilles:
"Homme, vers toi je pousse, ô cher déshérité,
Sous ma prison de verre et mes cires vermeilles."
"L'Âme du Vin" [The Soul of Wine] http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/L%E2%80%99%C3%82me_du_vin
Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857)
As quoted by Jerry Rubin in recounting his visit with Manson in We Are Everywhere (1971)
“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.”
Source: Taking Care of Terrific
cubanet.org (May 15, 2000)
2007, 2008
“The bird
That glads the night had cheer'd the listening groves with sweet complainings.”
The Chace (1735)
This was said not only for that same time, but also to set thereupon the ground of my faith when He saith anon following: But take it, believe it, and keep thee therein and comfort thee therewith and trust thou thereto; and thou shalt not be overcome.
The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 70