Dew Quotes

• Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

  Samuel Daniel

  Sweet, Morning, Cheer

  Samuel Daniel (1855). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc”, p.6

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• Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Rain, Clouds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “Hyperion, and Kavanagh”, p.163

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• The dew waits for no voice to call it to the sun.

  Joseph Parker

  Voice, Waiting, Sun

  Joseph Parker (1867). “Ecce Deus: Essays on the Life and Doctrine of Jesus Christ : with Controversial Notes on "Ecce Homo".”, p.100

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• It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which is beautiful if not valuable. This is no time for hurry or for bustle. Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.

  John Steinbeck

  Beautiful, Weed, Morning

  John Steinbeck (1997). “Tortilla Flat”, p.34, Penguin

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• Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

  Socrates

  Men, Life Is Like, Leafs

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• In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Friendship, Good Morning

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Motivational, Dance

  Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.52, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early morning ones, and there is dew on the grass, and the day is forever unproved, where I might have a fertile unknown for a soil about me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Nature, Feet

  Henry David Thoreau, Ronald A. Bosco (2005). “Nature's Panorama: Thoreau on the Seasons”, p.28, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, (135) Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: (140) So excellent a king; that was, to this.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Garden, Two

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 129

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• What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

  Robert Browning

  Time, Age, Crystals

  Robert Browning, David Ewbank (2007). “The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Volume XV, with Variant Readings and Annotations”, p.106, Ohio University Press

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• Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

  Samuel Butler

  Morning, Lightning, Life Is

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• The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

  Oscar Wilde

  Flower, Garden, Bird

  Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.151, Harvard University Press

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• The dew of compassion is a tear.

  Lord Byron

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Death

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• Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

  Jean Paul

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.

  Philip James Bailey

  Night, Tears, Gone

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.55

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• What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?

  John Dryden

  Track, Tears, Young

  John Dryden (1904*). “John Dryden”

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• Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue.

  William C. Bryant

  Autumn, Blue, Heaven

  William Cullen Bryant, “To The Fringed Gentian”

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• The best fragrance is the scent of water, the fragrance of dew and rain falling on plants. Water is the essential element, a source of life and energy. A perfume that, like a garment, moves to suit the woman, her skin. A perfume that embraces a woman.

  Issey Miyake

  Rain, Moving, Fall

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• I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

  John Ford

  Mushrooms, Heaven, Now And Then

  'The Broken Heart' (1633) act 1, sc. 3

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• Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Broken Heart, Tears, Delicious

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1850). “The Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon”, p.163

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• I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too.

  John Keats

  Rose, Fever, Fading

  'La belle dame sans merci' (1820) st. 3

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• See how the Orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into the blowing roses, Yet careless of its mansion new; For the clear region where 'twas born Round in its self encloses: And in its little globes extent, Frames as it can its native element.

  Andrew Marvell

  Self, Rose, Elements

  c.1650-1652 'On a Drop of Dew' (published 1681).

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• I was raised on a farm in Kansas where we lived next door to my Grandma Dew, and I was her shadow. We went everywhere together - to the bank, the doctor, the Early Bird Garden Club, and to an endless procession of Church meetings.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Grandma, Garden, Kansas

  Sheri L. Dew (2001). “No Doubt about it”

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• Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.

  William Shakespeare

  Rust

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 2, l. 59

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• A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.

  Tomas Transtromer

  Summer, Night, Knowing

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