Robin Redbreast Quotes by Spike Milligan, Philip Pullman, William Allingham, William Blake, David Letterman and many others.
If a robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all heaven in a rage,
How feels heaven when
Dies the billionth battery hen?
Puts all heaven in a rage,
How feels heaven when
Dies the billionth battery hen?
The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.
The trees are Indian Princes, But soon they’ll turn to Ghosts; The scanty pears and apples Hang russet on the bough; Its Autumn, Autumn, Autumn late, ‘Twill soon be Winter now. Robin, Robin Redbreast, O Robin dear! And what will this poor Robin do? For pinching days are near.
A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.
I saw a robin redbreast in Central Park today, but it turned out to be a sparrow with an exit wound.
A dog starved at his master’s gate Predicts the ruin of the state.
