Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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Soft carpet-knights, all scenting musk and amber.
guillaume de salluste du bartasHe was an unzipped fly caught in forever amber.
Richard CondonSir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.
Alexander PopeScarce had the morning starre hid from the lightHeavens crimson canopie with stars bespangled,But I began to rue th' unhappy sightOf that faire boy that had my hart intangled;Cursing the time, the place, the sense, the sin;I came, I saw, I viewd, I slipped in.If it be sinne to love a sweet-fac'd boy,Whose amber locks trust up in golden tramelsDangle adowne his lovely cheekes with joy,When pearle and flowers his faire haire enamels;If it be sinne to love a lovely lad,Oh then sinne I, for whom my soule is sad.
richard barnfieldPretty! in amber to observe the formsOf hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms!The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare,But wonder how the devil they got there.
Alexander PopeSoft carpet-knights all scenting musk and amber.
guillaume de salluste du bartasAn amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger.
john miltonThe bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.
Soft carpet-knights all scenting musk and amber.
guillaume de salluste du bartasAn amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger.
john miltonRose! thou art the sweetest flower, That ever drank the amber shower; Rose! thou art the fondest child Of dimpled Spring, the wood-nymph wild.
Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
Alexander PopeWhile an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phæton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
We see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
Francis BaconWe see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monument and embalming of the body of any king.
Francis BaconI saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried.
Robert HerrickWell, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why .
kurt vonnegutBird of the amber beak, Bird of the golden wing! Thy dower is thy carolling; Thou hast not far to seek Thy bread, nor needest wine To make thy utterance divine; Thou art canopied and clothed And unto Song betrothed.
edmund clarence stedmanThe bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.
Francis BaconOn his first hand he wore rings of stone,Iron, amber, Wood and Bone.There were rings unseen on his second hand,One blood in a flowing band,One was air all whisper thin,And the ring of ice had a flaw within.Full faintly shone the ring of flame,And the final ring was without name.
patrick rothfussSquinting upon the lustre Of the rich Rings which on his fingers glistre; And, snuffing with a wrythed nose the amber, The Musk and Civet that perfum'd the chamber.
guillaume de salluste du bartasWhen Time shall turne those amber Lockes to Gray.
Michael Drayton