Famous quotes containing the words blessed, virgin and/or mary:
“Oh, may she deign to stand at my bedside
When I come to die; and may she call to me
And draw me to her in the blessed place!”
—Petrarch (1304–1374)
“O singers, resinous and soft your songs
Above the sacred whisper of the pines,
Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines,
Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs.”
—Jean Toomer (1894–1967)
“If Mary came would Mary
Forgive, as Mothers may,
And sad and second Saviour
Furnish us today?”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
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