“O hearts that break and give no sign
Save whitening lip and fading tresses!”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
The Voiceless; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“O singers, resinous and soft your songs
Above the sacred whisper of the pines,
Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines,
Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs.”
from "Georgia Dusk"
Poems from Cane (1923)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "O singers, resinous and soft your songs
Above the sacred whisper of the pines,
Give virgin lips to cornfield concubin…" by Jean Toomer?
Jean Toomer4
American poet and novelist 1894–1967Related quotes
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) writer and activist
O Black and Unknown Bards, st. 1.
Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917)
“Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
Thomas Sturge Moore (1870–1944) British playwright, poet and artist
"A Duet", line 5; from The Sea is Kind (London: Grant Richards, 1914) p. 78.
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Raggiungendomi con le tue mani ed avvertendo le mie dita, sussurro sulle tue labbra la mia infinita voglia di te.
Source: prevale.net
“Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips.”
Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938) Russian poet and essayist
“The song was born on her breathe and died at her lips.”
Markus Zusak book The Book Thief
Source: The Book Thief
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
Closing poem
1910s, At the Feet of the Master (1911)
“Your lips are red
My face is red from reading your red lips”
St. Vincent (musician) (1982) American singer-songwriter
"Your Lips Are Red"
Marry Me (2007)
“All kin' o' smily round the lips,
An' teary round the lashes.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
The Courtin' .
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)