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“And light is mingled with the gloom, And joy with grief; Divinest compensations come, Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom In sweet relief.”

Light Joy Grief Sweet Judgment Mercy Relief Compensation Thorns Gloom

Book:Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

“Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth,Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth,Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white,Love is like a lovely rose, the world's delight.Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth,But the rose with all its thorns excels them both.”

World Shows Earth Joy Growth White Love Is Sweet Birth Rose Delight Lovely Thorns Lilies Trembling Love Is Like

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

“I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn, And climbing for the prize, was torn, And fouled my feet in quag-water; And by the thorns and by the wind The blossom that I took was thinn'd, And yet I found it sweet and fair.”

Found Water Feet Sweet Wind Fairs Prize Climbing Torn Thorns

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.”

Sleep Sweet Taste Bed Rose Repentance Repent Thorns Sour Bed Of Roses

Book:Emblems, divine and moral, with a sketch of the life and times of the author

Source: Emblems, divine and moral, with a sketch of the life and times of the author

“The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair: The roses fearfully on thorns did stand, One blushing shame, another white despair; A third, nor red nor white, had stol'n of both And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath; But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth A vengeful canker eat him up to death. More flowers I noted, yet I none could see But sweet or colour it had stol'n from thee.”

Hands Growth White Sweet Flower Hair Pride Despair Red Thirds Breaths Shame Rose Thee Colour Theft Thorns Bud Lilies Robbery Blushing Vengeful

Book:The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems

Source: The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems

“Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.”

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)