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“Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn.”

Heart Littles Hours Chance Beauty Sweet Empty Opening Dawn Breasts Jewels Beam Loveless

Book:Alan Seeger: the complete works

Source: Alan Seeger: the complete works

“How deep is the magic of sound may be learned by breaking some sweet verses into prose. The operation has been compared to gathering dew-drops, which shine like jewels upon the flower, but run into water in the hand. The elements remain, but the sparkle is gone.”

May Has Beens Hands Running Sound Water Gone Magic Sweet Flower Elements Shining Operations Prose Verses Gathering Jewels Dew Sparkle

Book:Pleasures of Literature

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“Oh sharp diamond, my mother! I could not count the cost of all your faces, your moods that present that I lost. Sweet girl, my deathbed, my jewel-fingered lady...”

Faces Mother Girl Lost Sweet Cost Mood Your Face Diamond Jewels Deathbed Sweet Girl

Author:Anne Sexton

“A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety.”

Men Lasts Heaven Voice Virtue Wife Sweet Arms Kissing Safety Innocence Pale Jewels Guardian Gems Good Wife Best Gift Her Smile Caskets Sweet Music

Author:Jeremy Taylor

“Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”

Use Problem Challenges Sweet Adversity Ugly Jewels Sermons Jewelry Overcoming Adversity You Like It Toads Adversity And Character Venomous Adversity Motivational Precious Jewels

Author:William Shakespeare

“From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it By giving him one little pet. He is my household's guardian soul; He judges, he presides, inspires All matters in his royal realm; Might he be fairy? or a god? When my eyes, to this cat I love Drawn as by a magnet's force, Turn tamely back upon that appeal, And when I look within myself, I notice with astonishment The fire of his opal eyes, Clear beacons glowing, living jewels, Taking my measure, steadily.”

Source: The Flowers of Evil

“When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.”

Looks Mean Doe Home Suffering Sweet Comparison Jewels Brighter Foreign Places

Book:The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Source: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making