“Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Virtue, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Charmian.
“Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Virtue, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“She had a full measure of youth’s indifference to the past.”
Glen Cook book Soldiers Live
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 79, “The Taglian Territories: In Motion” (p. 620)
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
St. 14 <br class="br"> Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751) <br class="br">Source: An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard
Mathew Roydon (1583–1622) English poet
An Elegie; or Friend's Passion for his Astrophill, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). This piece was errantly ascribed to Edmund Spenser, and was printed in The Phœnix' Nest (1593), where it is anonymous. Todd has shown that it was written by Mathew Roydon.
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
I stood tip-toe upon a little Hill; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
John of the Cross (1542–1591) Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint
Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom