Awestruck, Flora stared at the dishevelled sisters with their blazing faces and radiant ragged wings, who smelled of no kin but the wild high air.

Laline Paull
Awestruck, Flora stared at the dishevelled sisters with their blazing...
Awestruck, Flora stared at the dishevelled sisters with their blazing...
Awestruck, Flora stared at the dishevelled sisters with their blazing...
Awestruck, Flora stared at the dishevelled sisters with their blazing...
About This Quote

In this quote from the poem, A Shropshire Lad, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, a sense of awe and wonder can be found. The words “awestruck” and “awe” refer to a feeling of being deeply moved or impressed by something grand or tremendous. In this case they are describing the sisters from the bird family that were being described as being “beyond compare”.

Source: The Bees

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