“Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.”
Source: In Tuscany
Source: La Mécanique du cœur
“Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.”
Source: In Tuscany
“There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.”
Source: Love Story
Poems Composed or Suggested During a Tour in the Summer of 1833, "There!" said a Stripling, l. 10 (1833).
“A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.”
Canto XXIV, lines 77–78 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
“Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.”
“Don't be afraid to fart while peeing, every rainstorm needs a bit of thunder.”
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
The Question http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1907.html (1820), st. 2
Source: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 31