phoenix quotes

   And glory, like the phoenix midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.

-Rochdale
  English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, l.959^60.

Ask me no more if east or west The Phoenix builds her spicy nest; For unto you at last she flies, And in your fragrant bosom dies.

-Thomas Carew
  'A Song'.

Do not expect again a phoenix hour, The triple-towered sky, the dove complaining, Sudden the rain of gold and heart's first ease Traced under trees by the eldritch light of sundown.

- Cecil Day-Lewis
  'From Feathers to Iron'.