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BIRDS
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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
      - Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis),
        Epigrams (bk. XIV, ep. 67)

Birdes of a feather will flocke togither.
      - John Minsheu (Minshew)

Birds, the free tenants of earth, air, and ocean,
  Their forms all symmetry, their motions grace,
    In plumage delicate and beautiful,
      Thick without burthen; close as fish's scales,
        Or loose as full blown poppies on the gale;
          With wings that seem as they'd a soul within them,
            They bear their owners with such sweet en-chantment.
      - James Montgomery

Every bird that upwards swings
  Bears the Cross upon its wings.
      - ascribed to John Mason Neale

See the enfranchised bird, who wildly springs,
  With a keen sparkle in his glowing eye
    And a strong effort in his quivering wings,
      Up to the blue vault of the happy sky.
      - Lady Caroline Sheridan Norton (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton)

He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.
      - Plutarch, Of Garrulity

Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly shore,--
  Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
    Quoth the Raven "Nevermore!"
      - Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven (st. 8)

Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray,
  With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
      - Alexander Pope, Pastorals--Spring (l. 23)

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
      - Proverb

The birds, great Nature's happy commoners, that haunt in woods in meads; and flowery gardens, rifle the sweets and taste the choicest fruits.
      - Nicholas Rowe

The nightingale, if he should sing by day, when every goose is cackling, would be thought no better a musician than the wren. How many things by season seasoned are to their right praise and true perfection!
      - William Shakespeare

The woosel cock so black of hue,
  With orange-tawny bill,
    The throstle with his note so true,
      The wren with little quill--
        . . . .
          The finch, the sparrow, and the lark,
            The plain-song cuckoo grey,
              Whose note full many a man doth mark,
                And dares not answer nay.
      - William Shakespeare,
        A Midsummer Night's Dream
         (Bottom at III, i)

I heard a bird so sing,
  Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.
      - William Shakespeare,
        King Henry the Fourth, Part II
         (Lancaster at V, v)

That byrd ys nat honest
  That fylythe hys owne nest.
      - John Skelton, Poems Against Garnesche
         (III)

The bird
  That glads the night had cheer'd the listening groves with sweet complainings.
      - William C. Somerville, The Chace

We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
      - John Webster

With sonorous notes
  Of every tone, mix'd in confusion sweet, Our forest rings.
      - Carlos Wilcox


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