“Leaning on thy dear faithful breast,
I would resign my breath,
And in thy loved embraces lose
The bitterness of death.”
A View Of Death
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Lucretia Maria Davidson2
American poet 1808–1825Related quotes
Source: The Campaign (1704), Line 309.
“In thy breast are the stars of thy fate.”
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
Act II, sc. vi
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)
“Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.”
William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet
Variant: O my love, my wife!
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
Source: Romeo and Juliet
Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
To a Lock of Hair http://www.bartleby.com/106/105.html.
“With wide-embracing love
Thy Spirit animates eternal years”
Emily Brontë (1818–1848) English novelist and poet
No Coward Soul Is Mine (1846)
Context: p>With wide-embracing love
Thy Spirit animates eternal years,
Pervades and broods above,
Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates, and rears.Though earth and moon were gone,
And suns and universes ceased to be,
And Thou wert left alone,
Every existence would exist in Thee. There is not room for Death,
Nor atom that his might could render void:
Thou — Thou art Being and Breath,
And what Thou art may never be destroyed.</p
James Macpherson (1736–1796) Scottish writer, poet, translator, and politician
"Croma", p. 178
The Poems of Ossian
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
O fortunati miei dolci martiri!
S'impetrerò che giunto seno a seno,
L'anima mia nella tua bocca io spiri.
Canto II, stanza 35 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)