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“Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful? The Air Pleasant? The Sea Profitable? And the Giver bountiful? Yet these are the things which it is difficult to retain. For could we always be sensible of their use and value, we should be always delighted with their wealth and glory.”

Thinking World Should Mind Use Earth Values Heaven Easy Difficult Wealth Sun Air Sea Glory Fairs Environmental Pleasant Glorious Sensible Profitable Giver Delighted

Book:Centuries of Meditations

Source: Centuries of Meditations

“Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!”

Littles Voice Sea Land Cry Bird Fairs Wave Melancholy Rejoice Dwellers

Author:Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

“All things do go a-courting, In earth, or sea, or air, God hath made nothing single But thee in His world so fair.”

World Love Made Earth Air Sea Fairs All Things Thee Engagement Sentimental

Book:Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them

Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them

“There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be.”

Earth Rich Sea Fairs Stones Pearls Bosoms Bowels

Book:Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments

Source: Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments

“Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding,Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West,That fearest nor sea rising, nor sky clouding,Whither away, fair rover, and what thy quest?”

White Sea Sky Fairs West Ships Rising Quests Sail Urgent Splendid Bosoms

Book:Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas

Source: Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas

“In the beginning the Gods made man, and fashioned the sky and the sea, And the earth's fair face for man's dwelling-place, and this was the Gods' decree: "Lo, We have given to man five wits: he discerneth folly and sin; He is swift to deride all the world outside, and blind to the world within: So that man may make sport and amuse Us, in battling for phrases or pelf, Now that each may know what forebodeth woe to his neighbor, and not to himself.”

Knows Men World May Made Earth Faces Given Sports Sin Five Sea Sky Fairs Blind Neighbor Wit Phrases Folly Woe Dwelling Decree Dwelling Place

Book:The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection

Source: The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection

“The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian ideas, is set forth in Pindar's second Olympian: after three or six lives in which a man has lived with strict justice and perfect integrity, he passes beyond the tower of Cronus to the fair realm that cannot be reached by land or sea, where gentle breezes from a placid ocean blow forever on the fields of asphodel. For a description, see Pindar. If the beauty of great poetry can commend a religion, here you have it.”

“This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!”

World Imagination Sleep Secret Known Sea This World Discovery Built Fairs Green Islands Fairy Sunlight Communion Foul

Author:J. G. Holland

“Love is Enough Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, Though the skies be too dark for dim eyes to discover The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder, Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder, And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over, Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter: The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.”

Source: Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough

“The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.”

Firsts White Sea Fairs Silent Breeze Flew Foam

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge