peacock quotes

The Pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

-William Blake
  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,'Proverbs of Hell'.

She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd. 458

-John Keats
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems, 'Lamia', pt.1, l.47^50.

   Le geai pare   des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.

-Jean de La Fontaine
  Fables, pt.4, no.9,'Le geai pare   des plumes du paon'.

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white; Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font: The fire-fly wakens: waken thou, with me. Now droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. Now lies the Earth all Dana' to the stars, 842 And all thy heart lies open unto me. Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me. Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the lake: So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip Into my bosom and be lost in me.

-Tennyson
  The Princess, pt.7, added song, complete.