“She is happy where she lies
With the dust upon her eyes.”

“Lover," she whispers, and closes her eyes.
It falls upon her.
Love is like dying.”

“It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.”

“Tearfly looked at Bellis curiously, bewildered by her ignorance. She did not care. What was important to her was where she was fleeing from, not where she was, or where she was going.”

“That's when I asked her where was that actress
She said "That was somebody else"
And then I asked her why she looked so happy now
She said "I finally like myself, at last I like myself."”

“Like a good and happy man increasing his virtue, he kissed her. She did not move away from him. She remained in the embrace of his right arm, her face nuzzling his shoulder, her eyes closed. He tipped her chin to look and measure opportunity. She could not open her eyes. Honorably he searched, but on her face he met no quarrel.”

“As she fled fast through sun and shade
The happy winds upon her played,
Blowing the ringlet from the braid.”

“Half-buried to her flaming breast
In this bright tree, she makes her nest,
Hundred-sunned Phoenix! when she must
Crumble at length to hoary dust!”

“She with her eyes my heart does bind,
She with her voice might captivate my mind.”

“She look'd down to blush, and she look'd up to sigh,
With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.”