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“What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!" And voices chanted clear and sweet, "To-day the Prince of Peace is born.”

Mean Voice Born Clear Feet Sweet Glory Rounds Christmas Prince Of Peace

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“January brings the snow / Makes your feet and fingers glow / February's ice and sleet / Freeze the toes right off your feet / Welcome March with wintry wind / Would thou wer't not so unkind / April brings the sweet spring showers / On and on for hours and hours.”

Hours Feet Sweet Wind Spring Fingers Snow Welcome Ice March Showers Toes April Freeze January Unkind February Flanders Sleet

Author:Michael Flanders

“... I gave as an offering my all to Him Who had won me and saved me, my property, my fame, my health, my very words... In considering all these things, I preferred Christ. And the words of God were made sweet as honeycombs to me, and I cried after knowledge and lifted up my voice for wisdom. There was moreover the moderation of anger, the curbing of the tongue, the restraint of the eyes, the discipline of the belly, and the trampling under foot of the glory which clings to the earth.”

Made Eye Earth Voice Christ Feet Sweet Discipline Fame Glory Property Tongue Saved Word Of God Offering Cried Considering Restraint Moderation Belly Discipleship

Author:Gregory of Nazianzus

“Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet.”

Lying Found Pleasure Feet Sweet

Book:The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc

Source: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc

“When Spring is old, and dewy windsBlow from the south, with odors sweet,I see my love, in shadowy groves,Speed down dark aisles on shining feet.”

Dark Feet Sweet Spring Shining South Speed Aisle Odor Grove

Author:Maurice Thompson

“I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hands' weaving.”

Hands My Own Feet Sweet Died Grieving Tied Thread Dove Weaving

Author:John Keats

“I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet.”

Darkness Feet Sweet Flower Incense

Author:John Keats

“One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.”

Certain Energy Emotion Feet Sweet Treats Patterns Familiar Devices Incapable Rhyme Neat Rhyming

Author:Ezra Pound

“I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn, And climbing for the prize, was torn, And fouled my feet in quag-water; And by the thorns and by the wind The blossom that I took was thinn'd, And yet I found it sweet and fair.”

Found Water Feet Sweet Wind Fairs Prize Climbing Torn Thorns

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Woman, thou art a river, deep and wide, Of waters soft and sweet: Alas! I've never reached the other side; Though oft I've wet my feet!”

Art Women Sides Water Feet Sweet Rivers Wide Wet Alas

Book:Imogen: And Other Poems

Source: Imogen: And Other Poems

“Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear; And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near.”

Running Joy Difficult Feet Tears Sweet Taste Drawing Honey Difficult Days

Author:James Whitcomb Riley

“April brings the primrose sweet, / Scatters daisies at our feet.”

Feet Sweet April Daisies

Book:Pretty lessons in verse, for good children; with some lessons in Latin in easy rhyme

Source: Pretty lessons in verse, for good children; with some lessons in Latin in easy rhyme

“What change has made the pastures sweet And reached the daisies at my feet, And cloud that wears a golden hem? This lovely world, the hills, the sward-- They all look fresh, as if our Lord But yesterday had finished them.”

Ifs World Looks Made Past Lord Feet Sweet Spring Clouds Finished Yesterday Lovely Golden Hills Our Lord Daisies Pastures Hem

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.”

Air Feet Sweet Trials Again And Again

Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

“There is a sight all hearts beguiling-- A youthful mother to her infant smiling, Who with spread arms and dancing feet, A cooing voice, returns its answer sweet.”

Heart Mother Voice Answers Feet Sweet Arms Return Sight Dancing Spread Infant

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie

“Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. * * * Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books.”

Men Heart Book Parent Feet Sweet Proud Commit Pens Swear Spouse Brothels Lenders

Author:William Shakespeare

“Crowds of bees are giddy with clover Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, Crowds of larks at their matins hang over, Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.”

Lord Feet Sweet Crowds Bees Skip Larks Giddy Clovers Grasshoppers Hang Over

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“Loving me with my shoes off means loving my long brown legs, sweet dears, as good as spoons; and my feet, those two children let out to play naked.”

Mean Children Long Two Play Body Feet Sweet Shoes Legs Naked Brown Spoons Loving Me

Book:Love Poems

Source: Love Poems

“Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.”

Moving Sun Feet Sweet Dancing Shining Dance Weather

Author:Bob Marley

“The foot that is familiar with the grass belongs usually to a man of lighter heart than he whose soles seldom wander from the pavement; and the best elixir vitæ is a run, as often as we can contrive it, amid the sweets of new and lovely scenery, where nature sits, fresh from the hand of the Creator, almost chiding us for our delay.”

Men Heart Hands Running Feet Sweet Creator Lovely Familiar Wander Grass Delay Lighters Scenery Pavement Elixir

Author:Leopold Hartley Grindon

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