“Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit,
The power of beauty I remember yet.”
John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Lines 1–2.
Lyrics
“Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit,
The power of beauty I remember yet.”
John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Lines 1–2.
Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918) American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier
Main Street and Other Poems (1917), A Blue Valentine
Context: It seems appropriate to me to state
According to a venerable and agreeable custom,
That I love a beautiful lady.
Her eyes, Monsignore,
Are so blue that they put lovely little blue reflections
On everything that she looks at,
Such as a wall
Or the moon
Or my heart.
“A lovely lady, garmented in light
From her own beauty.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
The Witch of Atlas http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4696 (1820), st. 5
“My wife, ladies and gentlemen. Beauty, brains, and now brawn.”
Richelle Mead (1976) American writer
Source: The Ruby Circle