Abode Quote by Walter Savage Landor

“The secret of seeing is, then the pearl of great price. If I thought he could teach me to find it and keep it…

— Annie Dillard

“Wisdom’s Pearl doth often dwell Closed in Fancy’s rainbow shell”

— John Sterling

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

“I bind the Sun's throne with a burning zone, And the Moon's with a girdle of pearl; The volcanoes are dim, and the stars…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn! From thy dead lips a clearer…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand; I stooped, and wrote upon the sand My name, the…

— Hannah Flagg Gould

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

“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

“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

“The cool, pearly sheen of dawn had warmed in the East to a blaze of vivid rose that deepened along the horizon's edge to…

— M.M. Kaye

“Plume" Transfixed to the, by the, on the congruities, who is herself a vanishing point coming to closure — dusky flutter — trilling away…

— Aaron Shurin