Breaths Quote by Ernest Dowson

“I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng, Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out…

— Ernest Dowson

“I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng, Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out…

— Ernest Dowson

“When shall I get to kiss thee?’ I asked. ‘By all means you can forever ask,’ she answered. ‘Your lips ask a heavy price,’…

— Hafiz Shirazi

“Heaped up on the blankets, our bodies bound by weariness and her deep slumber, surrounded by sickness and hope, death and defiance, I touched…

— Gregory David Roberts

“Though the face before me was that of a young woman of certainly not more than thirty years, in perfect health and the first…

— H. Rider Haggard

“Lizzie, Lizzie, have you tasted For my sake the fruit forbidden? Must your light like mine be hidden, Your young life like mine be…

— Christina Rossetti

“O my love, my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.”

— William Shakespeare

“She used to place her pretty arms about my neck, draw me to her, and laying her cheek to mine, murmur with her lips…

— Sheridan Le Fanu

“Had we been wed in Scotland, we could have spoken the old vows. Do you know what words, what promises we would have spoken…

— Judith McNaught

“I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I have not had one word from her Frankly I wish I were dead When she left, she wept a great deal; she said…

— Sappho

“Yea, she hath passed hereby, and blessed the sheaves, And the great garths, and stacks, and quiet farms, And all the tawny, and the…

— Frederic Manning