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Letter "L" » lilies
«We may talk as we please of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles in fields of d'or or d'argent, but if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in the field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms»
«Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies for instance.»
«Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies»
«My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.»
«Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.»
«Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.»
«What was he doing, the great god Pan, / Down in the reeds by the river? / Spreading ruin and scattering ban, / Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat, / And breaking the golden lilies afloat / With the dragon-fly on the river.»
«My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness -- if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor -- but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
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«Sabrina fair, / Listen where thou art sitting/ Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, / In twisted braids of lilies knitting / The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.»
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