Winter birds
By: Jamie Langston Turner
Publisher: Bethany House
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9780764200151; 9780739472668
Subjects: Fiction; Older women; Widows
Description: Sophia Hess has been living in a marriage of convenience, until the discovery of a dark secret opens her eyes to the truth about her professor husband.
Table of contents: title: Conscience is but a word that cowards use; title: The whirligig of time brings in his revenges; title: To dive into the fire, to ride on the curled clouds; title: Some meteor that the sun exhales; title: The wide world and all her fading sweets; title: Vowing more than the perfection of ten; title: A foul and pestilent congregation of vapors; title: As the gentle rain from heaven; title: Against the stormy gusts of winter's day; title: Honor is a mere scutcheon; title: So strong a prop to support so weak a burden; title: Men must endure their going hence; title: Wipe off the dust that hides our scepter's gilt; title: Second childishness and mere oblivion; title: A tattered weed, of small worth held; title: Like a rich armor, worn in the heat of day; title: O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide; title: Now, music, sound, and sing your solemn hymn; title: Like a fair house built on another man's ground; title: And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind; title: And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer; title: A tide in the affairs of men; title: What's gone and what's past help; title: Trifles light as air; title: That makes these odds all even; title: The web of our life is of a mingled yarn; title: Home art gone and taken thy wages; title: To feed on such sweet honey, and kill the bees; title: To burn this night with torches; title: Stones have been known to move; title: The thread of his verbosity; title: No other tribute at thy hands; title: My gracious silence, hail!