Quotes About Flutterings

O lady-bird, O lady-bird, With your red coat spotted black! And your flutterings of gauzy wings, Bringing the summer back! And a better hope to me Of a summer I shall see In this heart, with all your beauty stirr'd, O lady-bird, my lady-bird!

It seemed too much to ask of one small virgin that she should stake shame against the will of God. All she had to hold to, later, were those soft, inward flutterings and the remembered surprise of a brief encounter - spirit with flesh. Who would think it more than a dream wish? An implausible, laughable defense. And