Dew famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
-- Alexander Pope -
Vic bears you no ill will. He is outside drinking the Dew of the Mountain and will be glad to see you yourself again" Ranulf said to Lucas.
-- Claudia Gray -
Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.
-- Dogen -
A red, red rose, all wet with dew, With leaves of green by red shot through.
-- E. Nesbit -
The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
A great acacia, with its slender trunk And overpoise of multitudinous leaves. (In which a hundred fields might spill their dew And intense verdure, yet find room enough) Stood reconciling all the place with green.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.
-- Elizabeth Goudge -
The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky.
-- Elizabeth Oakes Smith -
The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by the enlivening dews of God's clemency, till the reapers abolitionists shall shout the harvest home.
-- Henry McNeal Turner -
Like vanishing dew, a passing apparition or the sudden flash of lightning -- already gone -- thus should one regard one's self.
-- Ikkyu -
Come quickly -- as soon as these blossoms open, they fall. This world exists as a sheen of dew on flowers.
-- Izumi Shikibu -
Amazingly, we’ve become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe.
-- Joel Salatin -
Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world.
-- John Constable -
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
-- John Dryden -
Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.
-- John Fletcher -
I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.
-- John Ford -
The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids.
-- John Milton -
The dew waits for no voice to call it to the sun.
-- Joseph Parker -
I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps, I have read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps, His Day is marching on.
-- Julia Ward Howe -
The world of dew is the world of dew. And yet, and yet--
-- Kobayashi Issa -
On the Death of his Child Dew Evaporates And all our world is dew...so dear, So fresh, so fleeting
-- Kobayashi Issa -
Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon -
Sap which mounts, and flowers which thrust, Your childhood is a bower: Let my fingers wander in the moss Where glows the rosebud Let me among the clean grasses Drink the drops of dew Which sprinkle the tender flower
-- Paul Verlaine -
Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts The world were poor in thanks, though every soul Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade Of grass, and every atomie of earth To utter it like dew.
-- Philip James Bailey -
Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
-- Samuel Butler -
The Master hath called us, in life's early morning, With spirits as fresh as the dew on the sod: We turn from the world, with its smiles and its scorning, To cast in our lot with the people of God.
-- Sarah Doudney -
Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.
-- T.A. Barron -
All beauty of this world is wet with the dew of tears.
-- Theodor Haecker -
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
-- Wendell Berry -
We blossom under praise like flowers in sun and dew; we open, we reach, we grow.
-- Gerhard E Frost -
The tulip's petals shine in dew, All beautiful, but none alike.
-- James Montgomery
