Quotations Containing the Sounds of a in arm, o in orb, e in eve, and oo in moon 1. O Nightingale! thou surely art A creature of a fiery heart! -WORDSWORTH. 2. Two men look out through the same bars; One sees the mud and one the stars. 3. And we sail on away, afar, Without a course, without a star. -SHELLEY. 4. There are maidens in Scotland more lovely by far, That would gladly be bride to young Lochinvar. 5. Your call was like a winged car, Driven on whirlwinds fast and far. -SCOTT. -SHELLEY. "" "OUR FLAG, MARGARET SANGSTER. 8. Once more: speak clearly if you speak at all; 9. Thy fate is the common fate of all, Some days must be dark and dreary. -HOLMES. -LONGFELLOW. 10. Mourning when their leaders fall, Warriors carry the warrior's pall, 11. It whispered to the fields of corn, 12. At eve cool shadows fall Across the garden wall. 13. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. -LONGFELLOW. -G. ARNOLD. TENNYSON. 14. Hark, hark! Who calleth the maiden Morn, From her sleep in the woods and the stubble corn? The merry sweet notes of the hunter's horn. 15. All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful The Lord God made them all. -BARRY CORNWALL. CECIL F. ALEXANDER. 16. What though in solemn silence all Move round the dark terrestrial ball? JOSEPH ADDISON. 17. Oh rose, out of the heart of brier and thorn, All thy sweet loveliness was born. 18. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro' the moss the ivies creep, And in the stream the long-leav'd flowers weep, -TENNYSON. 19. There oft as mild evening sweeps over the lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me. 20. The anchor heaves! The ship is free! Our sails swell full! To sea! To sea! 21. Thought is deeper than all speech; Feeling deeper than all thought; What unto themselves was taught. 22. Waking or asleep Thou of death must deem Or how could thy notes flow In such a crystal stream? -BURNS. -C. P. CRANCH. -SHELLEY. 23. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset was seen. -BYRON. 24. The fisher is out on the sunny sea, And the reindeer bounds o'er the pastures free, And the moss looks bright where my step hath been. -HEMANS. 25. Round yon snowy house, greenwoods dream: 'Twixt the giant boughs moonbeams stream. 26. The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free. -BARRY CORNWALL. 27. Keep thou my feet: I do not ask to see -NEWMAN. 28. Singing the bridal of sap and shoot, The tree's slow life between root and fruit. 29. The glory has passed from the goldenrod's plume; The purple-hued aster still lingers in bloom. 30. Health that mocks the doctor's rules, Knowledge never learned in schools. -HOLMES. -WHITTIER. 31. Beautiful hands are they that do Work that is earnest, brave, and true, Moment by moment the whole day through. 32. She left the web, she left the loom, 33. And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. -ALLERTON. TENNYSON. -WHITTIER. Quotations Containing the Sounds of e in there, u in urn, a in ate, and o in oak 1. Come, O swallows, and stir the air, For the buds are bursting unaware. -GOSSE. 3. Lithe squirrels darted here and there, And wild birds filled the echoing air With songs of liberty. 4. Beautiful faces are those that wearIt matters little if dark or fairWhole-souled honesty printed there. 5. O thou child of many prayers, 6. Her eyes like stars of twilight fair, Like twilight, too, her dusky hair. -LONGFELLOW. -WORDSWORTH. 7. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurlWrecked is the ship of pearl! 8. Bards of passion and of mirth, -HOLMES. Ye have left your souls on earth! -KEATS. |