
“A Lady that was drown'd at Sea, and had a wave for her Winding sheet.”
Bayes, Act IV, sc, i
The Rehearsal (1671)
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“A Lady that was drown'd at Sea, and had a wave for her Winding sheet.”
Bayes, Act IV, sc, i
The Rehearsal (1671)
“A sparkle was in his eye, but his life was in his hand.”
Tonight's the Night
Song lyrics, Tonight's the Night (1975)
“The soul would have no rainbow
Had the eyes no tears.”
The Century Vol. 44, Issue 4 (August 1892)
Tears (1892)
Context: Not in the time of pleasure
Hope doth set her bow;
But in the sky of sorrow,
Over the vale of woe. Through gloom and shadow look we
On beyond the years!
The soul would have no rainbow
Had the eyes no tears.
Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
Orpheus to Beasts. Compare: "There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres", Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Part ii, Section ix; "The mind, the music breathing from her face", Lord Byron, Bride of Abydos (1813), canto i, stanza 6.
Lucasta (1649)
“The common growth of Mother Earth
Suffices me,—her tears, her mirth,
Her humblest mirth and tears.”
Prologue, stanza 27.
Peter Bell (1798)