Cradle Quote by Matthew Arnold

“There came to that room wild streams of violet midnight glittering with dust of gold, vortices of dust and fire, swirling out of the…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light O'er the glad waves, like a child of…

— Thomas Kibble Hervey

“The sky slides into blue, the bluffs into bloom; the rapid Mississippi expands; runs sparkling and gurgling, all over in eddies; one magnified wake…

— Herman Melville

...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.

— Homer

“He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved in the…

— Victor Hugo

“He watched the early light of the new moon glint fretfully on the river, now silver slivers, now darkness, as the night breeze stirred…

— Pauline Gedge

“We walked in so pure and bright a light, gilding the withered grass and leaves, so softly and serenely bright, I thought I had…

— Henry David Thoreau

“In the dim light he appeared to phosphoresce, in the manner of warm seas on velvety summer nights.”

— Terry Pratchett

“The late afternoon Sun threw amber and gold across the deep body of the ocean, breaking into unseen luminance across the horizon. She listened…

— Tamara Rendell

“Well did the traveler know those garden lands that lie betwixt the wood of the Cerenerian Sea, and blithely did he follow the singing…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Sometimes, if the two old women were not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly along the walks at a very advanced hour of the…

— Victor Hugo

“A vast field opened like a blossoming tulip, flowers blooming in the rippling airs of spring. High and frothy trees hugged air and sun…

— Paul Andreas Wunderlich