But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid are far more fair than she.
William Shakespeare
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when G... DANTE ALIGHIERI my mother is pure radiance. she is the sun i can touch and kiss SANOBER KHAN A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971) I don't know how she did it. Fire She was shaking all over... PATTI SMITH Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with li... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery tur... SYLVIA PLATH I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they... ALBERTO CAEIRO What are the gifts given to we who live Below?" "Long life, health, strength, and happiness." ALLY CONDIE Moon is a superstar to a neon light Both are in doubt of their lifeless plight One envies... 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FREDERICK MERRICK WHITE This is the way of it, sad earth over, The heart that breaks is the heart of the lover, And ... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Sick of body, unable to rise up, vehemently intoxicated without wine . . . And it is as t... AL-MUTANABBī She was like the sun, She knew her place in the world - She would shine again regardless... NIKKI ROWE Once upon a time, before chimaera and seraphim, there was the sun and the moons. The sun was betroth... LAINI TAYLOR What a strange thing it is to wake up to a milk-white overcast June morning! The sun is hidden by a ... VERA NAZARIAN But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere." "'They?' Who are ... JOHN CONNOLLY he turns to the sunlight, And lifts her face up, She searches for the light, The ligh... ASHISH BHARDWAJ I've missed you, Sebastian." "Have you, love?" He unfastened the buttons of her robe, the... 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FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Little Maiden Encounters Fear Deepest regions walked she there little maiden sweet a... MUSE HERMIA God speed fair Helena! whither away? HELENA Call you me fair? that fair ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sun shines on my back as I walk away Sun shines on my chest and I return The fall air is c... BRENT M. JONES In the morning when I wake And the sun is coming through, Oh, you fill my lungs with sweet... THE PAPER KITES Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough w... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each ... JOHN DONNE Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am the sun and moon and forever hungry the sharpened edge where day and night shall... AUDRE LORDE Soeur Marie Emelie" Soeur Marie Emelie is little and very old: her eyes are ony... CARYLL HOUSELANDER Bilbo’s Last Song Day is ended, dim my eyes, But journey long before me lies. J.R.R. TOLKIEN and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again CHARLES BUKOWSKI Oh, what is brighter than the light? What is darker than the night? What is keener than... CASSANDRA CLARE Elm BY SYLVIA PLATH I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap r... SYLVIA PLATH People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when t... ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS Mark it, nuncle. Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There are three lessons I would write- Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of... FRIEDRICH SCHILLER When the sun sets like fire, I will think of you, when the moon casts its light, I... BRIAN JACQUES Tonight I Can Write Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for e... PABLO NERUDA Light is sweet, and it pleases the eyes to see the sun. However many years anyone may liv... KING SOLOMON SON OF DAVID She wasn’t broken. She was made up of a thousand tiny little cracks. She was always tryi... JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN Heavy is the head that wears the crown William Shakespeare CHARMAINE J. FORDE The leaves were long, the grass was green, The hemlock-umbels tall and fair, And in the gl... J.R.R. TOLKIEN She died--this was the way she died; And when her breath was done, Took up her simple ward... EMILY DICKINSON Those were the three words seldom asked to her. Yet, she knew they hold a healing power i... SANHITA BARUAH The buzzard has nothing to fault himself with. Scruples are alien to the black panther. Pi... WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA While the storm clouds gather far across the sea, Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,... 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To catch the nearest wa... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,
I knit my handkercher about your brows--
The... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so;
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealou... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock
The meat it fee... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you--
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess
(As I confess it is my nature's p... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that
supplants us all in the long run. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned
Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
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Are to the jealous confirmations strong
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In drops of sorrow. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill
In a true hate to pray they have their will;
The very devils cannot pla... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE