“And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.” SoulDiesSightGlancesHustleBustle Author:Matthew Arnold
“Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.” IfsLoveFirstsHeartTwoSoulYoungGirlAsksSimpleLove IsWonderMorningLove YouYouthSweetSummerTwentiesOpeningHidingGlancesCurvesBudSimple ThingsRaptureRippleVelvetSeventeenPeachesHiding PlaceSweet Girl Book:Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus Source: Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus
“Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.” SoulAgeFilmDivineGoodnessMereFruitUglySpreadGlances Book:Silas Marner (Sparklesoup Classics) Source: Silas Marner (Sparklesoup Classics)
“In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on mountain-heights a glance behind Betrays with knowledge, and the climber slips Down gulfs of fear to some enormous fall.” SoulLightDeathFallMemoriesBehindsVisionForeverMountainMercyBlindEnormousHeightSlipsBetrayGlancesBleakRenderingClimbers Author:Clark Ashton Smith