Dew Quotes - Page 6

• Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But by her breath her beauties to renew.

  Robert Greene

  Flower, Wind, Purple

  Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson (188?). “The poems of Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Johnson”

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• And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what is your friend that your should seek with him hours to kill? Seek with him always hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter, and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Morning, Laughter, Fun

  Khalil Gibran, “Friendship IXX”

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• You must open a little, or rather raise on high your corolla so that the Bread of Angels may come as divine dew to strengthen you, and to give you all that is wanting to you.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Angel, Giving, Bread

  St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.73, TAN Books

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• Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Science, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

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• Tis moonlight, summer moonlight,
  All soft and still and fair;
  The solemn hour of midnight
  Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere,
  
  But most where trees are sending
  Their breezy boughs on high,
  Or stooping low are lending
  A shelter from the sky.
  
  And there in those wild bowers
  A lovely form is laid;
  Green grass and dew-steeped flowers
  Wave gently round her head.

  Emily Bronte

  Summer, Sweet, Flower

  Emily Bronte, “Moonlight, Summer Moonlight”

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• Oh that it were with me
  As with the flower;
  Blooming on its own tree
  For butterfly and bee
  Its summer morns:
  That I might bloom mine hour
  A rose in spite of thorns.
  
  Oh that my work were done
  As birds' that soar
  Rejoicing in the sun:
  That when my time is run
  And daylight too,
  I so might rest once more
  Cool with refreshing dew.

  Christina Rossetti

  Summer, Running, Flower

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.96, Delphi Classics

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• Pepsi has a new Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew. No, we don't have an Ebola vaccine, but we do have the Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew.

  David Letterman

  Ebola, Vaccines, Mountain

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• In lang, lang days o' simmer,
  When the clear and cloudless sky
  Refuses ae weep drap o' rain
  To Nature parched and dry,
  The genial night, wi' balmy breath,
  Gars verdue, spring anew,
  An' ilka blade o' grass
  Keps its ain drap o' dew.

  James Ballantine

  Summer, Spring, Rain

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• And pray, who are you?"
  Said the Violet blue
  To the Bee, with surprise,
  At his wonderful size,
  In her eyeglass of dew.
  "I, madam," quoth he,
  "Am a publican Bee,
  Collecting the tax
  Of honey and wax.
  Have you nothing for me?

  John B. Tabb

  Summer, July, Blue

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• O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers!
  O for an iceberg or two at control!
  O for a vale that at midday the dew cumbers!
  O for a pleasure trip up to the pole!

  Rossiter Johnson

  Summer, Garden, July

  Rossiter Johnson (1902). “Morning Lights and Evening Shadows”

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• All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever.

  Ethel Lynn Beers

  Fall, Rivers, Forever

  "The Picket-Guard" l. 41 (1861) See Remarque 1

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• In every seed to breathe a flower, In every drop of dew To reverence a cloister star Within the distant blue; To wait the promise of the how, Despite the cloud between, Is Faith-the fervid evidence Of loneliness unseen.

  John B. Tabb

  Faith, Stars, Loneliness

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• Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.

  Dogen

  Short Life, Discipline, Today

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• Like sweet morning dew
  I took one look at you
  And it was plain to see
  You were my destiny

  Method Man

  Song, Sweet, Morning

  Song: You're All I Need

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• In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden clouds of even, the purple mountains, the hoary rock, the blue boundless main, Nature's simplest flower, or some fair form of laughing child or lovely maiden, we cannot see the beautiful without admiring it.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Beautiful, Nature, Children

  Thomas Guthrie (1862). “The Way to Life: Sermons”, p.161

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• Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will; over which swept all the storms of fate, ambition and revenge; upon which fell the gloom and darkness of despair and death and all the sunlight of content and love, and within which was the inverted sky lit with the eternal stars -- an intellectual ocean -- toward which all rivers ran, and from which now the isles and continents of thought receive their dew and rain.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stars, Revenge, Rain

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.616, Library of Alexandria

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• And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.

  John Milton

  Stars, Cells, Heaven

  c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.167-74.

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• Sap which mounts, and flowers which thrust,
  Your childhood is a bower:
  Let my fingers wander in the moss
  Where glows the rosebud
  Let me among the clean grasses
  Drink the drops of dew
  Which sprinkle the tender flower

  Paul Verlaine

  Flower, June, Childhood

  Paul Verlaine (1948). “Forty Poems”

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• Come quickly -- as soon as these blossoms open, they fall. This world exists as a sheen of dew on flowers.

  Izumi Shikibu

  Flower, Fall, World

  Liza Lim, Izumi Shikibu (2000). “Burning house: for koto and voice (1 performer) (1995)”

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• There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Rain, Flower

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• Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the acre lies

  Howard Mumford Jones

  Lying, Flower, Butterfly

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• The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Flower, May, Cups

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.208

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• If our faith can live without God, it is not divinely created. If God had begotten it, it would wait upon Him as the flowers wait upon the dew.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Motivation, Flower, Inspiration

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Diana L. Matisko (1984). “Evening by Evening”, Whitaker Distribution

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• Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
  Sailed off in a wooden shoe, -
  Sailed on a river of crystal light
  Into a sea of dew.

  Eugene Field

  Night, Light, Sea

  "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" l. 1 (1889)

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• Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,
  With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,
  Steel-true and blade-straight,
  The great artificer made my mate.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Eye, Poetry, Gold

  'Songs of Travel' (1896) 'My Wife'

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