With eyes up-rais'd, as one inspir'd, Pale Melancholy sate retir'd, And from her wild sequester'd seat, In notes by distance made more sweet, Pour'd thro' the mellow horn her pensive soul.
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Related And there I shut her wild, wild eyes / With kisses four. JOHN KEATS Sweetest melodiesAre those that are by distance made more sweet. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue
But moody and dull melancholy,
Kinsman to a grim and ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When you saw her eyes, you could see her heart. When she smiled, the whole room lit up. She was just... DEBI BELL Amy pulls away and looks into my face. Her pale skin is blotchy red, her eyes are veined and shadowe... BETH REVIS At some point, she didn't know when or for how long, she found herself lost, lost in a song. Her eye... JAMES MORRIS Lo! at the couch where infant beauty sleeps;
Her silent watch the mournful mother keeps;
She,... THOMAS CAMPBELL Follow your saint, follow with accents sweet; / Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet. THOMAS CAMPION Shout now! The months with loud acclaim,
Take up the cry and send it forth;
May breathing swe... J.K. HOYT Her sweet smile which makes the sun shine so bright
Her gorgeous eyes which bring the darker sides l... COCOY MCCOY Something about him made her pause. When his eyes glittered back at her from the shadows, Ari felt h... SAMANTHA YOUNG I am no writer. Her sparkling eyes made my fingers write words in the sand. Her radiant smile made m... AVIJEET DAS I am no writer. Her sparkling eyes made my fingers write words in the sand, Her radiant smile made m... AVIJEET DAS She knew her distance and did angle for me, Madding my eagerness with her restraint, As all impedime... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Her fingertips dug into his shoulders as she pressed closer. Then her lips parted to his, and there ... SIERRA DONOVAN As if Misfortune made the Throne her Seat,
And none could be unhappy but the Great. NICHOLAS ROWE As if Misfortune made the throne her seat,/ And none could be unhappy but the great. NICHOLAS ROWE As if Misfortune made the Throne her Seat, And none could be unhappy but the Great. NICHOLAS ROWE With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets—what nonsense was he ... VIRGINIA WOOLF You missed a fine opportunity there." Her heart raced as she whirled around. The hoarse v... JUDITH JAMES Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed... JOHN MILTON The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul. GLORIA NAYLOR It was clear to her now, Happiness was a seductive illusion. No one as fucked up as her deserved one... SOLANGE NICOLE She closed her eyes; and in the sweet slumber lying her spirit tiptoed from its lodging place.<... FRANCESCO PETRARCA Natasha, in her lilac silk dress trimmed with black lace walked, as women can walk, with the more re... LEO TOLSTOY I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from ... ISAAC MARION Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid -- as easy the secreting her behind the Eye... EMILY DICKINSON She had the prettiest eyes & prettiest smile with Wounds on her heart and bruis... TANYA GAMBHIR Her stories were made of badass women teasing monsters and running wild with dragons. MELODY LEE Her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garmen... GEORGE ELIOT She thought in would be awkward for both to be brought into conscious collision; and fancied that, f... ELIZABETH GASKELL Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island c... ARUNDHATI ROY The Airlines lady who travels in the same compartment as us day after day, has bruises on her arms a... AMRUTA PATIL Rightly tired of the pain İ hear and feel, boss... where we's comin from or goin to or why... If İ... STEPHEN KING The world eclipses and it’s just her and him. No it’s just her eyes and his soul. Her eyes expos... STEFAN EMUNDS I looked into her eyes, and saw my own staring back, the same peculiar shade, pale grey, flecked wit... CELIA REES She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their dar... CORMAC MCCARTHY With the blood dripping from her lips, with her blood spattered white dress, and with her pale skin,... CAMERON JACE And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still m... EDMUND WALLER I love her bare legs from a distance. When she's standing by a pool. When she's facing the water, th... JACLYN MORIARTY Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but s... RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN It was a woman--as pale and luminescent as a ghost, with swirling white hair. Ezra startled, droppin... ELIZABETH FAMA Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up
Issue to me, that the contending kingdoms
Of F... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not u... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Princess Diana talking to Prince William about the loss of her title Her Royal Highness: She turned ... PAUL BURRELL Anne had no sooner uttered the phrase, "home o'dreams," than it captivated her fancy and she immedia... L.M. MONTGOMERY The unicorn is a very fierce beast with only one horn. To capture it a virgin maid is placed in the... BISHOP HONORIUS Pale, with dark hair, the one who is coming is melancholy, romantic. And I am arch and fluent and ca... VIRGINIA WOOLF Sometimes words weren’t enough— they couldn’t cover the feeling. This was one of those times. ... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT The woman is a reflection of her man's love. A well-loved woman sees the world through the lenses of... ALEXANDRA PINTO Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body. RAINBOW ROWELL Unbidden, a growl escaped him just as his lips brushed that heavenly skin and with one bite he pierc... HEATHER R. BLAIR She could feel the pressure from his hand on the back of her head as he forced her head down to take... BETH ASHWORTH I didn't steal her from you, I just made her laugh twice as many times as you made her cry. SAMUEL H. LOWE You'll never ever hear her toot her own horn. BRUCE BAILEY Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geran... VIRGINIA WOOLF Shame, Depair, Soltude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones,- and they had made her str... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The moment her hymen was plucked from her body in the wilderness, Her soul was taken from sani... ROMAN PAYNE The moon pull'd off her veil of light,
That hides her face by day from sight
(Mysterious veil,... SAMUEL BUTLER (1) She goes by 'Chris,' not 'Christine,' in her everyday life. Calling her Christine would be like usin... HOLLY ARMSTRONG Till the rose's lips grow pale
With her sighs. ROSE TERRY COOKE All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of t... MARKUS ZUSAK Storms, those whirlwinds and symphonies in the sky, nourish her midnight soul an... MELODY LEE The moon's an arrant theif, and her pale fire she snatches from the sun. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The moon's an arrant thief,And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I told her teammates to love her. But to love her from a distance right now. CAREY GREEN Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was as golden as the sun's rays, and her so... GASTON LEROUX The stranger astonished him more and more by her dignified and serious manner. It's usually the case... LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH Tonight I Can Write Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for e... PABLO NERUDA I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there... BIBLE As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nost... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her... JEREMY TAYLOR She sat on the little iron garden seat in the clearing at the top and looked down at the strange gar... KATE MORTON And she arose from her deathbed in a gossamer gown, with eyes the color of starlight and hair as bla... YASMINE GALENORN Everything about her was sweet, pale like honey. You would not have been surprised to see a bee caug... KATHERINE MANSFIELD The sisters' voices were almost identical, laughing mezzos tuned in childhood to the same pitch and ... ALLEGRA GOODMAN One has to learn contentment, forgiveness, and purpose on her own before the universe allows her to ... BENYF She has the most bizarre and beautiful soul I had ever seen. Her eyes shined always like a�... AKSHAY VASU And as she looked at the pool she saw the waters gather up into a column, rushing up foaming and sta... ELLIOT MABEUSE She couldn't turn away from the eyes that held her. Eyes as deep, as Dark as the night, yet there wa... LORA LEIGH Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. FRANCIS BEAUMONT The woman raked her gaze up his body as if checking out livestock. As she reached his face, her kohl... BRYNN KELLY Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade
Glitter like a swarm of fireflies ta... LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Or light or dark, or short or tall,
She sets a springe to snare them all:
All's one to her--ab... THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the ... OLIVER GOLDSMITH In a flash of wonderment she saw firm, continuous ground under her feet, stretching from back then t... ANN BRASHARES She had always looked like some confectioner's fantasia, a wee thing created of spun sugar, gossamer... ELOISA JAMES She deftly snatches her mace and holds it in her purse for cover. She’s totally not about to be ta... SOLANGE NICOLE With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her... LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS Tears had poured from her eyes without any change in her facial expression. It’s pure pain and pur... RENEE CARLINO Her skin glowed, her hair was luxurious, her eyes sparkled, and her tits were even more fantastic. ALICE CLAYTON She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was li... J.M. BARRIE Before placing her in her mother's arms, she whispered, as she had at all the other births, hello, l... TAHMIMA ANAM One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her ... MARC CHAGALL Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with bol... THOMAS JEFFERSON Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes; Her aunt, who from h... HILAIRE BELLOC You love your country," she said. "I can't let you give all that up." He caught a glimmer of pain an... SARAH J. MAAS She closed her eyes and wished that the earth would swallow her up. NEIL GAIMAN He slept under the sky, holding her hand, filling the gaps between her fingers and losing himself in... AKSHAY VASU But it was a happy and beautiful bride who came down the old, homespun- carpeted stairs that Se... L.M. MONTGOMERY
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Trying to get back to y... SUZANNE COLLINS But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a... SUZANNE COLLINS At a few minutes before four, Peeta turns to me again. "Your favorite colour . . . it's green?" SUZANNE COLLINS She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You... SUZANNE COLLINS I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink i... SUZANNE COLLINS They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you. SUZANNE COLLINS That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire ... SUZANNE COLLINS Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness. SUZANNE COLLINS I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have. SUZANNE COLLINS I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking. SUZANNE COLLINS Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Es... SUZANNE COLLINS Are you, are you coming to the tree? Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me. Stra... SUZANNE COLLINS Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt... SUZANNE COLLINS I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dial... SUZANNE COLLINS There are much worse games to play. SUZANNE COLLINS Some walks you have to take alone. SUZANNE COLLINS You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in y... SUZANNE COLLINS I must have loved you a lot. SUZANNE COLLINS Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us! SUZANNE COLLINS What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruct... SUZANNE COLLINS You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers. "Real," I answer. "Because t... SUZANNE COLLINS It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart. SUZANNE COLLINS The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my fa... SUZANNE COLLINS For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first. SUZANNE COLLINS You here to finish me off, Sweetheart? SUZANNE COLLINS I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are... SUZANNE COLLINS Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the ... SUZANNE COLLINS And I said, 'A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?' And he said, 'Bec... SUZANNE COLLINS I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver y... SUZANNE COLLINS Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour." "Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was th... SUZANNE COLLINS Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear. SUZANNE COLLINS Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say. "Yes! Perfect. One is always much bra... SUZANNE COLLINS You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me. SUZANNE COLLINS Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone. SUZANNE COLLINS It's meant to be pretty," whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her la... SUZANNE COLLINS While I was waiting...I ate your lunch. SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off. Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final def... SUZANNE COLLINS