Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 47.
“May Morning, as the proverb runs, appear
Bearing glad tidings from his mother Night!”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 264–265 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)
“Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.”
“The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs”
“Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew,
And her conception of the joyous Prime.”
Canto 6, stanza 3
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book III
“Her heart was warmed and melted like the dew on roses under the morning sun.”
Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book III. Jason and Medea, Lines 1019–1021
“I'm young as morning
and fresh as dew.
Everybody loves me
and so do you.”
Source: I Shall Not Be Moved
“Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew,
She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 600.
“He was exhaled; his great Creator drew
His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.”
On the Death of a Very Young Gentlemen (1700).
“A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.”
Leaving Cheyenne (1963).
“While Memory watches o'er the sad review
Of joys that faded like the morning dew.”
Part II, line 45
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
