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“Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise; But waking flow'rs, At morning hours, Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies.”

Giving Father Hours Morning Sun Sky Sweet Flow Clouds Thee Waking Incense Rosy

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)

“I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, my morning incense, and my evening meal, the sweets of hasty pudding.”

Knows Feels Morning Sweet Eating Evening Meals Charm Palate Pudding Hasty Incense

Author:Joel Barlow

“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

“The perfume of the flowers and of the bay tree are wafted on high, like incense. The birds sing sweet songs of praise to their Creator. In the tops of the trees, the soughing of the wind is like the hushed prayers of the multitude in some vast cathedral. Here the heart of man becomes impressionable.”

Men Heart Song Prayer Tree Sweet Wind Flower Bird Praise Creator Multitudes Perfume Cathedrals Incense Impressionable

Book:Documents on the Life and Art of William Wendt, 1865-1946, California's Painter Laureate of the Paysage Moralisé

Source: Documents on the Life and Art of William Wendt, 1865-1946, California's Painter Laureate of the Paysage Moralisé

“The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the '60s: Independent fire!”

Years Literature Language White Fire Poet Sweet Flower Picks Independent Folks Forty Lovable Incense

Author:Gwendolyn Brooks

“Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.”

Heart Sound Sides Sweet Wings Depth Lips Lap Deep Love Absorbing Shrines Incense Love Lies Sweet Thoughts

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.”

Wells Play Hands Sweet Piano Distraction Galaxy Pianist Incense Vapor Vipers Mollusks

Author:Russell Sherman

“I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.”

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith