Source: The Rubaiyat (1120)
Source: The Rubaiyat (1120)
“Ah that such sweet things should be fleet,
Such fleet things sweet!”
Félise.
Undated
“Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang
When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?”
Source: Poems of Christina Rossetti
as cited in History, Humanity and Evolution (1989), p. 383.
1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925)
The Divine Milieu, p. 128
The Divine Milieu (1960)
“Ah, how wonderful is the advent of spring!”
Source: Kavanagh: A Tale (1849), Chapter 13.
Context: Ah, how wonderful is the advent of spring! — the great annual miracle of the blossoming of Aaron's rod, repeated on myriads and myriads of branches! — the gentle progression and growth of herbs, flowers, trees, — gentle and yet irrepressible, — which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love, that wins its way and cannot be withstood by any human power, because itself is divine power. If spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change! But now the silent succession suggests nothing but necessity. To most men only the cessation of the miracle would be miraculous and the perpetual exercise of God's power seems less wonderful than its withdrawal would be.
“Ah, the strange, sweet, lonely delight
Of the Valleys of Dream.”
Dream Fantasy, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie.”
Virtue, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
