Her cheeks so rare a white was on, No daisy makes comparison; (Who sees them is undone); For streaks of red were mingled there, Such as are on a Cath'rine pear, (The side that's next the Sun).
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Shall I, wasting in despair,Die because a woman’s fair?Or make pale my cheeks with care,’Cause another’s rosy are?Be she fairer than the day,Or the flowery meads in May,If she be not so to me,What care I how fair she be?
george witherWhat message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain.
alexander blokHow easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! Tosparethegrossness ofthenames, and to dothe thing yet moreseverely, isto drawa full face, and tomake the nose and cheeks stand out, and yet not to employ any depth of shadowing.
john drydenWe wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes.
Paul Laurence DunbarA girl whose cheeks are covered with paint Has an advantage with me over one whose ain't.
America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.
We understood Her by her sight; her pure, and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say, her body thought.
john donneAs for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Blair as two cheeks of the same arse.
George Galloway'Clearer and nearer still,' cried the Rat joyously. 'Now you must surely hear it! Ah at last I see you do!' Breathless and transfixed the Mole stopped rowing as the liquid run of that glad piping broke on him like a wave, caught him up, and possessed him utterly. He saw the tears on his comrade's cheeks, and bowed his head and understood.
Kenneth GrahameI remember… his first introduction to Mr. Haydon; and when in the course of conversation that great artist asked him, "if he did not love his country," how the blood rushed to his cheeks and the tears to his eyes, at his energetic reply. His love of freedom was ardent and grand.
john keatsBut in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him go. When lips invite, And eyes delight, And cheeks as fresh as rose in June, Persuade delay, What boots to say Forego me now, come to me soon.
Sir Walter RaleighDiscord, a sleepless hag who never dies, With Snipe-like nose, and Ferret-glowing eyes, Lean sallow cheeks, long chin with beard supplied, Poor crackling joints, and wither'd parchment hide, As if old Drums, worn out with martial din, Had clubb'd their yellow Heads to form her Skin.
john wolcotFrom every blush that kindles in thy cheeks, Ten thousand little loves and graces spring To revel in the roses.
nicholas roweThen fresh tears Stood on her cheeks, as doth the honey-dew Upon a gather'd lily almost wither'd.
william shakespeareDeath's pale flag advanced in his cheeks.
Touch me with noble anger! And let not women's weapons, water drops, Stain my man's cheeks.
william shakespeareWhy, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile, And cry, "Content" to that which grieves my heart; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
william shakespeareYou can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine is blanch'd with fear.
william shakespeareThe Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair.
walter bagehotTo highlight and accentuate their eyes, cheeks, noses and other features, all dancers, male and female, wear makeup when they are onstage.
You cannot forget if you would those golden kisses all over the cheeks of the meadow, queerly called dandelions.
henry ward beecherMay the nights always be aglow with the bliss of the day with unharmed hands and feet and kissed cheeks.
Sanober Khan