“Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn,
And liquid amber drop from every thorn.”
Autumn, line 36.
Pastorals (1709)
“Amber light
Of this new morning,
Amber light,
Clear, bright and warming.
Overnight
The Earth adorning…
Amber light,
A New Age is dawning….”
Song lyrics, The Millennium Bell (1999)
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Overnight
The Earth adorning…
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intanto s'adorna, e l'aurea testa
Di rose, colte in Paradiso, infiora.
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“Soft carpet-knights, all scenting musk and amber.”
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“I saw a flie within a beade
Of amber cleanly buried.”
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“Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain,
And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.”
Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock
Canto IV, line 123.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
“The bee enclosed and through the amber shown
Seems buried in the juice which was his own.”
Martial book Epigrammata
IV, 32, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb", Francis Bacon, Historia Vitæ et Mortis; Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. experiment 100.
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