William Gilmore Simms Quote

It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.


Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside (ed. 1853)


It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been ...

It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been ...

It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been ...

It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been ...