He that loves a rosy cheek,
Or a coral lip admires,
Or from star-like eyes doth seek
Fuel to maintain his fires,--
As old Time makes these decay,
So his flames must waste away.
-- Thomas Carew (1589-1639)
-- Disdain Returned
Or a coral lip admires,
Or from star-like eyes doth seek
Fuel to maintain his fires,--
As old Time makes these decay,
So his flames must waste away.
-- Thomas Carew (1589-1639)
-- Disdain Returned
Related:
- Cupid and my Campaspe play'd
At cards for kisses: Cupid paid.
He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, His mother's... - Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart, Vulture... - Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him... - Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness,
feel the slippery finish. Caresses it, experience it... - He who has so little knowledge of human nature as
to seek happiness by changing anything but his own
disposition will waste his life in fruitless
efforts."
-
Samuel Johnson (1709... - Clerk: Yep, `General Sherman'. They say he's five hundred pounds of
bottom-dwelling fury,
don't you know. No one knows how old he is... - So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed,
And yet anon repairs his drooping head,
And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames... - Morton Downey...ever since he was eight years old,
his parents pleaded with him to run away from home... - Homer: How dare you talk about Ned Flanders like that.
He's a wonderful, kind, caring man -- maybe...
