
Part ii, canto vii.
Lucile (1860)
Part ii, canto vii.
Lucile (1860)
Billy Graham, Tangled Ropes: Superstar Billy Graham (2006)
“He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.”
The Rosciad (1761), line 322
“He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone.”
A Prayer For Old Age http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1423/, st. 1.
A Full Moon in March (1935)
Context: God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone.
16 September 1902
Source: Willa Cather in Europe (1956), Ch. 14
“He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.”
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all”
Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“Rattle his bones over the stones!
He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns!”
The Pauper's Ride, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“God don't lie…. And these are his words…. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things.”
Source: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter IX, Judge Holden
“Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?”
"Beyond" (1933)