139 Quotes About Verse

PilgrimsTuscan reds and ochre huesOlive greens and skies of blueSunlit valleys full of charmSecluded homestead and hilltop farmOver hills skim birds in flightAromas whet the appetiteAutumn rustle fills the airRevealing grace of trees laid barePathways meander through the valeInviting travelers its height to scaleSunset rewards as evening endsAnd pilgrims to the night descend

I am dead to the wild world's lunacy,And now rest in a tranquil universe!I live alone in my own holy ecstasy,Within my rapture—within my Verse!

I do not count mortal daysUnder the roof of a chilled empty building,I'm reading the Apostles' words,Words of Psalm-singer I am reading.Sleet is fluffy, and stars turn blue,And more marvelous is each meeting --And in the Bible a leafOn Song of Songs is sitting.

When they did "Best Sandwich" it turned the room friendly from strange and they could breathe each other's breath in and out and in and out till they heard at last their mother's key in the big front door.

We stayed mute and disloyalbecause we were afraidI would have touched my fingersto where your breasts had beenbut we never did such things

how can I reconcile this passionwith our modestyyour calvinist heritagemy girlhood frozen into formshow can I go on this missionwithout youyou, who might have told meeverything you feel is true?

From heart-experience, and in humblest senseOf Modesty, that he, who in his youthA daily wanderer among woods and fieldsWith living Nature hath been intimate,Not only in that raw unpractised timeIs stirred to ecstasy, as others are,By glittering verse but further, doth receive,In measure only dealt out to himself, Knowledge and increase of enduring joyFrom the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.

and they still control the world, and you are not in my arms.

What is a Lamb of God? People use this phrase.I don't know.I watch my sister, fingers straying absently about her mustache,no help there.