“It is so sweet to hear His voice in silence, so sweet indeed.”
Flow of Divine Guidance (vol.1)
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John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Sonnet, The Day is gone; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Smooth are his words, his voice as honey sweet,
Yet war is in his heart, and dark deceit!”
Moschus Ancient Greek poet
'The Stray Cupid', tr. R. Polwhele, lines 14–15
Compare: "The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords." Psalm 55:21 (KJV)
The Idylliums of Moschus, Idyllium I
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
Ode for Music http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=ocmu (1769), V, line 8
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English writer
LXXXIV, Eupheme, part 4, lines 37-40
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Underwoods
“Sweet to me was not the voice of man,
But the wind's voice was understood by me.”
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet
"Willow" (1940)
Context: Sweet to me was not the voice of man,
But the wind's voice was understood by me.
The burdocks and the nettles fed my soul,
But I loved the silver willow best of all.
“The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.”
Livy (-59–17 BC) Roman historian
Book XXIV, sec. 21
History of Rome
“I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Source: Collected Stories
“Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold”
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) American poet
"This Is Just to Say"
Collected Poems 1921-1931 (1934)
Context: I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold