Nathalia Crane - Wings Quotes

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The starry brocade of the summer night
Is linked to us as part of our estate;
And every bee that wings its sidelong flight
Assurance of a sweeter, fairer fate.

Nathalia Crane

The gods released a vision on a world forespent and dull;
They sent it as a challenge by the sea hawk and the gull. It roused the Norman eagerness, the Albion cliffs turned red:
You fly the wings of logic — can you fly the wings of lead?

Nathalia Crane

And the eyes of all look upward seeing sign-word drawing nigh,
The stony wings of Egypt coming back across the sky; We hear the clinking tamborine of Miriam anew;
We believe in every miracle since Lindbergh flew the blue — The wonder of the long draw when the bowstring is a thread —
The beauty of a courage that can raise the wings of lead.

Nathalia Crane

A thousand ardent oilers swung the long spout 'twixt their nods,
And tried to glimpse a meaning in the challenge of the gods. And then one night there landed on a Mineola swale
A plane that looked like pewter, with a carrier of mail. Its wings were tinged like tea-box skins, each truss of shadow gray,
Its cabin but an alcove slung beneath a metal ray. The Spirit of St. Louis was inscribed upon the lee;
It came from out a province that had never seen the sea.

Nathalia Crane