James Montgomery - Flight Quotes

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Beyond this vale of tears
There is a life above,
Unmeasured by the flight of years;
And all that life is love.

James Montgomery

Once, in the flight of ages past,
There lived a man.

James Montgomery

Nimbly they seized and secreted their prey,
Alive and wriggling in the elastic net,
Which Nature hung beneath their grasping beaks;
Till, swoln with captures, the unwieldy burden
Clogg'd their slow flight, as heavily to land,
These mighty hunters of the deep return'd.
There on the cragged cliffs they perch'd at ease,
Gorging their hapless victims one by one;
Then full and weary, side by side, they slept,
Till evening roused them to the chase again.

James Montgomery

What shall I call thee — bird, or beast, or neither? — Just what you will; I'm rather both than neither; Much like the season when I whirl my flight, The dusk of evening — neither day nor night.

James Montgomery