Arches Quote by Erasmus Darwin

Fortune, honour, beauty, youth, Are but blossoms dying; Wanton pleasures, doting love, Are but shadows flying.

— Thomas Campion

Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry. To think,…

— Edmund Spenser

A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel…

— Bryan Procter

“With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet,…

— John Milton

“To fill the days up of his dateless year Flame from Queen Helen to Queen Guenevere? For first of all the sphery signs whereby…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

If on creation's morn the king of heaven To shrubs and flowers a sovereign lord had given, O beauteous rose, he had anointed thee…

— Henry George Bohn

“In early cultures, it was thought pearls were born when a single raindrop fell from the heavens and became the heart of the oyster.…

— Vonnie Davis

Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spreadO'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,And orient pearls from…

— William Somervile

In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden clouds of…

— Thomas Guthrie

I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I've felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its caressing, But…

— Richard Cobden

“The Jetavana Temple bells ring the passing of all things. Twinned sala trees, white in full flower, declare the great man's certain fall. The…

— Royall Tyler

Never did form more fairy thread the dance Than she who scours the hills to find it flowers; Never did sweeter lips chained ears…

— Alfred Austin