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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Whatever he did, was done with so much ease,
In him alone 'twas natural to please.
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In him alone 'twas natural to please.
We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.
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The three black graces, Law, Physic, and Divinity.
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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.
How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance.
How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance.
Here comes one with a paper: God give him grace to groan!
Here comes one with a paper: God give him grace to groan!
Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.
Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.
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
O, then, what graces in my love do dwell
That he hath turned a heaven unto a hell!
O, then, what graces in my love do dwell
That he hath turned a heaven unto a hell!
