Hummingbird quotes?

Question

Does anyone have any quotes, sayings, short stories, poems, or other brief and beautiful pieces about humming birds?

Answer 1

Humming-Bird
by D.H. Lawrence

I can imagine, in some otherworld
Primeval-dumb, far back
In that most awful stillness, that only gasped and hummed,
Humming-birds raced down the avenues.

Before anything had a soul,
While life was a heave of matter, half inanimate,
This little bit chipped off in brilliance
And went whizzing through the slow, vast, succulent stems.

I believe there were no flowers then,
In the world where the humming-bird flashed ahead of creation.
I believe he pierced the slow vegetable veins with his long beak.

Probably he was big
As mosses, and little lizards, they say, were once big.
Probably he was a jabbing, terrifying monster.

We look at him through the wrong end of the telescope of Time,
Luckily for us.

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A Route of Evanescence

by Emily Dickinson

A Route of Evanescence
With a revolving Wheel --
A Resonance of Emerald --
A Rush of Cochineal --
And every Blossom on the Bush
Adjusts its tumbled Head --
The mail from Tunis, probably,
An easy Morning's Ride --

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Also visit,

http://www.humabout.net/poetry.html

http://www.npca.org/cultural_diversity/native_expression/hummingbird.html


Take care.

Answer 2

Jewelled coryphee
With quivering wings like shielding gauze outspread.
- Ednah Proctor Clarke (Hayes), Humming-Bird

Quick as a humming bird is my love,
Dipping into the hearts of flowers--
She darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly
Dipping into the flowers of my heart.
- James Oppenheim, Quick as a Humming Bird

And the humming-bird that hung
Like a jewel up among
The tilted honeysuckle horns
They mesmerized and swung
In the palpitating air,
Drowsed with odors strange and rare.
And, with whispered laughter, slipped away
And let him hanging there.
- James Whitcomb Riley, The South Wind and the Sun

A flash of harmless lightning,
A mist of rainbow dyes,
The burnished sunbeams brightening
From flower to flower he flies.
- John Banister Tabb, Humming Bird

You might also enjoy Birds and Blooms Magazine (and/or Birds and Blooms Extra) - they have wonderful articles, photos on Birds of all kinds but often hummingbirds (and flowers, butterflies, birdfeeders... Readers often send in pictures and interesting short stories about their experiences.

Answer 3

“There is no easy way to bathe a hummingbird.”
Kehlog Albran

Answer 4

“If fat geese were selling for 10 cents a pound, I couldn't buy a hummingbird”