LightWinged Smoke
Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird,
Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight,
Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn,
Circling above the hamlets as thy nest;
Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form
Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts;
By night star-veiling, and by day
Darkening the light and blotting out the sun;
Go thou my incense upward from this hearth,
And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.
-Henry David Thoreau-.
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Stately and tall he moves in the hall,
The chief of a thousand for grace.
Stately and tall he moves in the hall,
The chief of a thousand for grace.
Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
Narcissus is the glory of his race:
For who does nothing with a better grace?
Narcissus is the glory of his race:
For who does nothing with a better grace?
Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
Teach me to live that I may dread
The grace as little as my bed.
Teach me to live that I may dread
The grace as little as my bed.
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.
An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.
An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that read more
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.
Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.
