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“Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.”

Earth Huge Rose Fabric Paradise Lost Book 9 Paradise Lost Book 1 Anon

Author:John Milton

“Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies bleeding.”

Earth Lying Laughing Sun Bed Mouths Rose Bleeding Pleading Love Lies

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

“We plant our roots in trembling earth, we live where mountains rose and fell and prehistoric seas burned away in mist. We and the towns we have built are not permanent; the earth itself is a passing train.”

Earth Sea Mountain Built Roots Towns Train Rose Plant Passing Passings Permanent Burned Mist Trembling Prehistoric

Book:Boy's Life

Source: Boy's Life

“The tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dewdrops falling from roses on the bosom of the earth. Shut not thine ear, therefore, against the cries of the poor, neither harden thine heart against the calamities of the innocent.”

Heart Earth Fall Poor Compassion Cry Tears Ears Rose Innocent Compassionate Calamity Bosoms

Book:The Œconomy of Human Life: Translated from an Indian Manuscript, Written by an Ancient Bramin. To which is Prefixed, an Account of the Manner in which the Said Manuscript was Discovered. In a Letter from an English Gentleman Now Residing in China to the Earl of E****..

Source: The Œconomy of Human Life: Translated from an Indian Manuscript, Written by an Ancient Bramin. To which is Prefixed, an Account of the Manner in which the Said Manuscript was Discovered. In a Letter from an English Gentleman Now Residing in China to the Earl of E****..

“Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth,Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth,Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white,Love is like a lovely rose, the world's delight.Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth,But the rose with all its thorns excels them both.”

World Shows Earth Joy Growth White Love Is Sweet Birth Rose Delight Lovely Thorns Lilies Trembling Love Is Like

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

“The earth with yellow pearsAnd overgrown with roses wildUpon the pond is bent,And swans divine,With kisses drunkYou drop your headsIn the sublimely sobering water.But where, with winter come, am ITo find, alas, the floweres, and whereThe sunshineAnd the shadow of the world?Cold the walls standAnd the wordless, in the windThe weathercocks are rattling.”

World Earth Water Divine Wall Cold Kissing Shadow Rose Winter Yellow Bent Alas Ponds Swans

Author:Friedrich Holderlin

“Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens and smiles on human life, which makes the desert blossom as the rose, and which glorifies the common things and common ways of earth. It made of this, the angel of life, a shape of sin and darkness ... Even in the unions which it reluctantly permitted, it degraded and dwarfed the passion which it could not entirely exclude, and permitted it coarsely to exist for the mere necessity of procreation.”

Way Humans Made Earth Religion Passion Sin Common Christianity Enemy Darkness Forever Shapes Angel Unions Rose Mere Desert Human Life Cursed Glorify Human Love Procreation Common Things

Book:Views and Opinions

Source: Views and Opinions

“Father, thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns, thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose All these fair ranks of trees. They, in thy sun, Budded, and shook their green leaves in thy breeze, And shot towards heaven.”

Looks Hands Earth Father Heaven Sun Tree Shots Fairs Green Rose Naked Roof Breeze Columns Green Leaves

Author:William C. Bryant

“Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing, and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places, till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose.”

Earth Sides Prayer Blessing Flow Rose Streams Dry Wilderness Showers Supplies Vapor Ascending

Author:A. B. Simpson

“Set NOT your hearts on the flowers of this world. They shall fade and die. Prize the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. He changes not! Live nearer to Christ than to any person on this earth; so that when they are taken, you may have Him to love and lean upon.”

World Heart May Persons Earth Dies Christ Taken This World Flower Rose Prize Valleys Fades Lilies Sharon

Author:Robert M