"Ringdove" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... interwed Desire and dream and sense, rapture and rue! As soon as my sincerest words are said And heard they seem apostate and untrue. For only speech more richly dubious Than shoaling water, or a ringdove's breast, Than lighted incense more miraculous With fumes of strange remembrance, could attest The morbid beauty of that wasting ill Whereof I am the cureless ...
— The Hours of Fiammetta - A Sonnet Sequence • Rachel Annand Taylor |
