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Letter "T" » The Ravens
«Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.»
Author: Jim Morrison
(Poet, Singer)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
angels, Angel of death, claw, clawing, claws, death angel, ravens, shoulders, shoulder in, smooth, The Raven, The Ravens, wings
«And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.»
«He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.»
«But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, / And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, / And every raven after his kind, / And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, / The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, / And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant, / And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.»
«Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls? / And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? / If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest? / Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.»
«Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? / Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? / Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth? / Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee? / Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go and say unto thee, Here we are? / Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart? / Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven, / When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together? / Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions, / When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait? / Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
abide, Arcturus, bands, bind, bottles, bring forth, cleave, cleaved, cleaving, cleft, clods, couch, covert, coverts, dens, dominion, dust cloud, fast food, hardness, hunt, hunting season, influences, lie in wait, lift up, lions, number the, ordinances, Orion, Pleiades, prey, raven, ravens, stay put, stay together, the Dominion, The Raven, The Ravens, The Sweet, The Young Lions, wander, wilt
«And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: / And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.»
«And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, / And the vulture, and the kite after his kind; / Every raven after his kind; / And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, / And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl, / And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, / And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.»
«And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.»
«Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Earth,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
carrion, inspired, raven, ravens, smell, The Raven, The Ravens
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