| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky, Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves. |
| Alexander Pope | Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves. |
| Bible | We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none: for salvation, but it is far off from us. |
| Bible | And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight. |
| George Herbert | Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee. |
| James Montgomery | The Dove, On silver pinions, winged her peaceful way. |
| John Dryden | As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Open every window to receive the guest, And the fair bearer of the message bless'd. |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagundex | See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves And, heedless of censorious eyes, Pursue their unpolluted joys: No fears of future want molest The downy quiet of their nest. |
| Lord Alfred Tennyson | And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan. |
| Ovidius Naso | As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves. |
| William Shakespeare | Anon, as patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed, His silence will sit drooping. |
| William Shakespeare | The dove and very blessed spirit of peace, |
| William Shakespeare | So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. |
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