“Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode Among the pines and mosses of yonder shadowy height, Where thou dost sparkle into song, and fill the woods with light.” LightBeautifulSongSecretWoodsHillsHeightBrooksSparkleMossAbode Book:Wild Roses of Cape Ann: And Other Poems Source: Wild Roses of Cape Ann: And Other Poems
“Perhaps after all the most breathtaking quality about San Francisco is these unexpected glimpses that you are always getting of beautiful hill-heights and beautiful valley-depths. ... City lights, like nests of diamonds, glitter and glisten in the depths of those valleys.” LightBeautifulCitiesQualityDepthHillsCaliforniaHeightUnexpectedValleysDiamondGlimpseSan FranciscoNestsGlitterBreathtakingCity LightsGlisten Author:Inez Haynes Irwin
“Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful.” HeartRealHandsBeautifulWaterNatureClearMysteryTreeEqualShadowGreenHopefullyLandscapeHeightLife And DeathDivisionShadeFar AwayPurpleSolemnHushReassuringMystery Of LifeHands UpTree Tops Book:The Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit Source: The Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit
“Man pays deference to woman instinctively, involuntarily, not because she is beautiful or truthful or wise or foolish or proper, but because she is a woman, and he cannot help it. If she descends, he will lower to her level; if she rises, he will rise to her height.” IfsMenHelpingBeautifulWomenLevelsPayWiseFoolishHeightTruthfulDeferenceShe Is Beautiful Author:Mary Abigail Dodge