"Light-winged" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a poet? Well, she is one,—an airy, light-winged poet with dainty conceits, and a charming woman, too. I must tell her she captured you at sight. That is Frances Sargent Osgood. And beside her sat Mrs. Gove Nichols, one of the new lights. Stay, I think I can find a poem or two of Fanny ...
— A Little Girl of Long Ago • Amanda Millie Douglas
... But light-winged Venus still is smiling fair: By night or noon we heed her call; To pound on midnight doors I still may dare, Or brave ...
— The Elegies of Tibullus • Tibullus
... in heed. And now the midmost place of heaven had dewy night drawn nigh, And 'neath the oars on benches hard scattered the shipmen lie, Who all the loosened limbs of them to gentle rest had given; When lo, the very light-winged Sleep stooped from the stars of heaven, Thrusting aside the dusky air and cleaving night atwain: The sackless Palinure he sought with evil dreams and vain. 840 So on the high poop sat the God as Phorbas fashioned, And as he sat such-like discourse from out his mouth he shed: "Iasian Palinure, ...
— The AEneids of Virgil - Done into English Verse • Virgil
... wilds by light-winged birds Rare seeds have oft been sown; And hope has sprung from gentle words, Where only grief ...
— The Diving Bell - Or, Pearls to be Sought for • Francis C. Woodworth |
