“It was the winter wild
While the Heav'n-born child
All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.”
Hymn, stanza 1, line 29
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)
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Celia Thaxter (1835–1894) American writer
"Already" in Drift-Weed (1878), p. 103.
Context: O brief, bright smile of summer!
O days divine and dear
The voices of winter's sorrow
Already we can hear.And we know that the frosts will find us,
And the smiling skies grow rude,
While we look in the face of Beauty,
And worship her every mood.
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
"The Stranger Song"
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
“Where is he, the champion and the child
Of all that's great or little, wise or wild”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
St. 3.
The Age of Bronze (1823)
Context: Where is he, the champion and the child
Of all that's great or little, wise or wild;
Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones;
Whose table earth — whose dice were human bones?
William Jones (1746–1794) Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India
From the Persian, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.”
Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974) American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist
As quoted in Lindbergh (1998) by A. Scott Berg, p. 510
Johann Hari (1979) British journalist
Britain - a caste society?, JohannHari.com, January 29, 2006, 2007-01-26 http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=789,
