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“I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast.”

Thinking Earth Tree Sweet Mouths Lovely Hungry Forests Breasts Breastfeeding Forests And Trees Nature's Beauty Arbor Day Inspirational Tree

Book:Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems

Source: Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems

“I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold mewould find me rest In luminous shades of her secret places, In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover My hidden couchnor the heaven above her As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast.”

Should Earth Strong Heaven Secret Sea Lovers Embrace Shining Depth Breasts Manifest Shade Weary Find Me Folds Shields Luminous Sleepy Secret Places Strong Love

Author:Adam Lindsay Gordon

“The strong desires of man's insatiate breast may stand possess'd Of all that earth can give; but earth can give no rest.”

Men Giving May Earth Desire Strong Breasts Strong Desire

Book:Quarles' emblems, illustr. by C. Bennett and W.H. Rogers

Source: Quarles' emblems, illustr. by C. Bennett and W.H. Rogers

“Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy.”

May Running Earth Lines Risk Air Draws Crosses Breathing Breasts Heroic Lacking Juice Pestilence Limes Languish

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“Love is the impulse which directs the world, And all things know it and obey its power. Man, in the maelstrom of his passions whirled; The bee that takes the pollen to the flower; The earth, uplifting her bare, pulsing breast To fervent kisses of the amorous sun;-- Each but obeys creative Love's behest, Which everywhere instinctively is done.”

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“We lived in places that we never knew. We could not name the birds perched on our sill, Or see the trees we cut down for our view. What we possessed we always chose to kill. "We claimed the earth but did not hear her claim, And when we died, they laid us on her breast, But she refuses us until we earn Forgiveness from the lives we dispossessed.”

Earth Names Views Cutting Tree Bird Claims Died Refuse Breasts Possessed

Book:99 Poems: New & Selected

Source: 99 Poems: New & Selected

“The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.”

Men Littles Earth Passion Heaven Influence Wind Conscience Storm Breasts Good Man Fulfilling Deities

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think