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“If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat's 'purple-stained mouth,' or perhaps even of Homer's dangerously wine-dark sea.”

Ifs Should Dark Sea Color Mouths Claims Wine Lips Colour Shade Purple Bacchus

Author:Victoria Finlay

“The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush; The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush; All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.”

Fall Sea Rain Rounds Edges Woods Sunset Farmers Ashes Brushes Leafs Purple Creeps Cautious Ripple Swamps Hush Maple

Book:The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations

Source: The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations

“There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil.”

Together Fire Sea Color Green Shining Unions Incredibles Oil Brilliant Painter Burning Flames Jewels Purple Rivals Jewelry Splendor Gems Rubies Emeralds Opal Amethyst Jewelry Boxes

Author:Pliny the Elder

“All things of the sea belong to Venus; pearls and shells and alchemists' gold and kelp and the riggish smell of neap tides, the inshore green, and purple further out and the joy of distances and the roar of falling masonry, all these are hers, but she doesn't come out of the sea for all of us.”

Joy Fall Sea All Things Gold Green Distance Smell Tides Shells Pearls Purple Alchemist Venus Masonry

Book:John Cheever: Complete Novels

Source: John Cheever: Complete Novels

“We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.”

States Beautiful United United States Sea Fields Planets Lakes Purple Tropics Turquoise

Author:Dan Aykroyd

“He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of New Mexico. It was like a great violet velvet mantle thrown down in the sun; all the shades that the dyers and weavers of Italy and France strove for through centuries, the violet that is full of rose colour and is yet not lavender; the blue that becomes almost pink and then retreats again into sea-dark purple—the true Episcopal colour and countless variations of it.”

Sides Dark Sun Growing Sea Century Flower Lows Blue Rose Hills France Colour Native Thrown Shade Mexico Retreat Violet Purple Variation Velvet Lavender New Mexico Weavers

Book:Death Comes for the Archbishop

Source: Death Comes for the Archbishop