Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill and calling for... larger spurs and brighter beaks. I fear that nationalism is one of England's many spurious gifts to the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star. In our barbarous societ...y the influence of character is in its infancy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O thou immortal light and heat! Whose hand so shines through all this frame,... That by the beauty of the seat, We plainly see who made the same. Seeing thy seed abides in me, Dwell thou in it, and I in thee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sounds are: the brisk swish of broom on tatami matting, the raucous cawing of hooded crows in a nearby willow grove; clickety-... clackety rattle of chattering housewives, a sound like briskly plied knitting needles, for Japanese is a language full of Ts and Ks; and, in the mornings, the crowing of a cock.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
she had a cock, hight Chanticleer. In all the land, of crowing n'as his peer;... His voice was merrier than the merry organ On masse-days that in the churche gone. Well sikerer was his crowing in his lodge Than is a clock or an abbey horologe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Before the Barn-Door crowing, The Cock by Hens attended,... His Eyes around him throwing, Stands for a while suspended: Then One he singles from the Crew, And cheers the happy Hen; With how do you do, and how do you do, And how do you do again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He is the poet of the dawn, who wrote The Canterbury Tales and his old age... Made beautiful with song; and as I read I hear the crowing cock, I hear the note Of lark and linnet, and from every page Rise odors of ploughed field or flowery mead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-Cross, To see an old woman get up on her horse.... Rings on her fingers, and bells on her toes, And so she makes music wherever she goes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »