Quotes from Kings Daughter — Vita Sackville-West
1892–1962 England
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The greater cats with golden eyes
Stare out between the bars.
Deserts are there, and the different skies,
And night with different stars.
Kings Daughter (1929)
But this beyond their wit know I:
Man loves a little, and for long shall die.
Kings Daughter (1929)
Their strength's eternal in their sight,
They overtake the deer in flight,
And in their arrogance they smite;
But I am sage, if they are strong:
Man's love is transient as his death is long.
Kings Daughter (1929)
I came from nowhere, and shall be
Strong, steadfast, swift, eternally:
I am a lion, a stone, a tree,
And as the Polar star in me
Is fixed my constant heart on thee.
Ah, may I stay forever blind
With lions, tigers, leopards, and their kind.
Kings Daughter (1929)