Calm Quote by Edmund Sears

“How she listened, the first time, to the sonorous lamentations of romantic melancholia echoing out across heaven and earth! If her childhood had been…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Mr. Gruffydd turned to my father, and he blew the note on the reed pipe. Ivor raised his finger, and from top of the…

— Richard Llewellyn

The inward sighs of humble penitence Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns Are scatter'd with the sounds of common air.

— Joanna Baillie

And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and the darkness,…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion…

— Honore de Balzac

“And in front of it all are the pearly gates: the proverbial entrance to Heaven that she, in earthly life, thought might not exist.…

— Victoria Kahler

And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high,…

— John Milton

A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep…

— Emily Bronte

A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth, But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth. The angels grow…

— Nathalia Crane

“She dreamt in shades of amethyst, drinking the deep purple elixir in ballads of wood nymphs, tiptoeing by elves that hid in the veiled…

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

“[Hers] was an existence between heaven and earth... beyond her stretched as far as the eye could see... an immense space of joys and…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Spend the glittering moonlight there Pursuing down the soundless deep Limbs that gleam and shadowy hair, Or floating lazy, half-asleep. Dive and double and…

— Rupert Brooke