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“Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.”

Poetry House Pleasure Feet Poet Forgotten Dust Ruined Mansions Lodges

Book:Essays on the Poets: And Other English Writers

Source: Essays on the Poets: And Other English Writers

“I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much body in contact with earth, bosom to bosom. [We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.”

Source: To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875

“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

“You who are dead ... tonight you will disport yourselves for my pleasure. Food and wine will pass between your dead lips, though you will not taste it. Your dead stomachs will hold it within you, while your dead feet take the measure of a dance. Your dead mouths will speak words that will have no meaning to you, and you will embrace one another without pleasure. You will sing for me if I wish it. You will lie down again when I will it.... Let the revelry begin.”

Ifs Lying Speak Wish Pleasure Feet Taste Mouths Wine Embrace Lips Tonight Within You Food And Wine Revelry

Author:Roger Zelazny

“Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them granted a night of sensual pleasure, or one of its radiant mornings.”

Night Pleasure Morning Feet Longing Rose Satisfied Granted Sensual Radiant Jasmine Sensual Pleasure

Author:C.P. Cavafy

“I can remember, with unsteady feet, Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which long Have lost their power to please; which when I see them, Raise only now a melancholy wish I were the little trifler once again, Who could be pleas'd so lightly.”

Littles Long I Can Remember Lost Wish Pleasure Rooms Feet Youth Flower Please Findings Raises Melancholy Toys

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Southey, LL. D. (later Poet Laureate.)

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Southey, LL. D. (later Poet Laureate.)

“That which the French proverb hath of sickness is true of all evils, that they come on horseback, and go away on foot; we have often seen a sudden fall or one meal's surfeit hath stuck by many to their graves; whereas pleasures come like oxen, slow, and heavily, and go away like post-horses, upon the spur.”

Fall Evil Pleasure Feet Horse Stuck Graves Posts Meals Sickness Going Away Spurs Horseback Oxen

Author:Joseph Hall

“Two children, all alone and no one by, Holding their tattered frocks, thro'an airy maze Of motion lightly threaded with nimble feet Dance sedately; face to face they gaze, Their eyes shining, grave with a perfect pleasure.”

Children Two Eye Faces Perfect Pleasure Feet Dancing Shining Graves Dancer Face To Face All Alone Mazes Airy Nimble

Book:Laurence Binyon

Source: Laurence Binyon

“Rabbits are a foolish people. They do not fight except with their own kind, nor use their paws except for feet, and appear to have no reason for existence but to furnish meals for meat-eaters. In flight they seem to rebound from the earth of their own elasticity, but keep a sober pace going to the spring. It is the young watercress that tempts them and the pleasures of society, for they seldom drink.”

People Kind Reason Use Seems Earth Young Fighting Pleasure Existence Feet Drink Spring Foolish Flight Meat Meals No Reason Pace Sober Rabbits Paws Rebound Elasticity

Book:Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

Source: Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

“The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.”

Persons Pain Pleasure Feet Youth Glory Claims Dare Dues Vanity Associates

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.”

Knows Earth Courses Stars Born Pleasure Feet Astronomy Mortals Multitudes Space Exploration Stars In The Sky

Author:Ptolemy