Beam Quote by Anna Letitia Barbauld

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

— Robert Southey

It's quite possible there's as much lightning on Venus as on Earth.

— David Grinspoon

“Shakespeare's ambiguous lubricity in Venus is less disturbing than the bleakly moral emphasis of Lucrece , where virtue is so low-spirited, its exclamation so…

— Peter Porter

Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars Makest to teem the many-voyaged main And fruitful lands-…

— Lucretius

“Tonight the sun has died like an Emperor ... great scarlet arcs of silk ... saffron ... green ... crimson ... and the blaze…

— John Coldstream

“The gleaming stars all about the shining moon Hide their bright faces, when full-orbed and splendid In the sky she floats, flooding the shadowed…

— Sappho

Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus…

— Ben Jonson

“We first observe how dreary and disagreeable an overclouded day is when a single sunbeam pierces through, and offers to us the exhilarating splendor…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The planet Venus, a circle of silver in a green sky, pierced the edge of the evening while the wintry woods darkened about me…

— Gore Vidal

The blazing brightnesse of her beauties beame, And glorious light of her sunshyny face To tell, were as to strive against the streame.

— Edmund Spenser

But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The…

— Alphonse de Lamartine