goose-wing quotes

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Departed Goose! I neither know nor care.
But this I know, that we pronounced thee fine,
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When goose down is sent a thousand miles, the gift may be light but the sentiment is weighty.
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose.
No Raven's wing can stretch the flight so far
As the torn bandrols of Napoleon's war.
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With sweet May dews my wings were wet,
And Phoebus fir'd my vocal rage;
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Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side,
And madness chooses out my voice again,
Again.
Yet the day wears,
And door succeeds door;
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The year's at the spring
And day's at the morn;
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And Coleridge, too, has lately taken wing,
But like a hawk encumber'd with his hood,--
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