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The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.
william wordsworth— 1837 'At Bologna, In Remembrance of the Late Insurrections: Continued', l.12-14 (published1842).
Away, and mock the time with fairest show; False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act I, scene 7, line 81.
The fairest action of our human life Is scorning to revenge an injury; For who forgives without a further strife, His adversary's heart to him doth tie: And 'tis a firmer conquest, truly said, To win the heart than overthrow the head.
— Lady Elizabeth Carew, chorus from "Maxiam"
Fare-thee-weel, thou first and fairest! Fare-thee-weel, thou best and dearest! Thine be ilka joyand treasure, Peace, Enjoyment, Love and Pleasure!
Robert Burns— 1791 'Ae Fond Kiss', stanza 5.
O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost
john milton— 1665 Adam to Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.896-91.
Fair and fair, and twice so fair, As fair as any may be; The fairest shepherd on our green, A love for any lady.
George Peele— 1584 TheArraignment of Paris, act1, sc.5.
The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.
Francis Thompson— 'Daisy' (published1890).
O harmony! thou tenderest nurse of pain,If that thy note's sweet magic e'er can healGriefs which the patient spirit oft may feel,Oh! let me listen to thy songs again;Till memory her fairest tints shall bring;Hope wake with brighter eye, and listening seemWith smiles to think on some delightful dream.
william lisle bowles— Music, from The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 - With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan (1855)
The fairest garden in her looks,And in her mind the wisest books.
Abraham Cowley— The Garden, i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
orson scott card— Chapter 9 (Seventh Son (1987))
A sweet content Passing all wisdom or its fairest flower.
richard henry horne— Orion (1843), Book iii, Canto ii.
'Tis the pest Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
john keats— Bk. II, l. 365.
There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake,
Or the way of a man with a maid;
But the fairest way to me is a ship's upon the sea
In the heel of the North-East Trade.
— The Long Trail, Stanza 5.
O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.
john milton— Ode on the Death of a fair Infant, dying of a Cough, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters, Eve.
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IV, line 323.
Thy father's merit sets thee up to view, And shows thee in the fairest point of light, To make thy virtues, or thy faults, conspicuous.
joseph addison— Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act I, scene 2.
And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.
Heinrich Heine— Heinrich Heine, The Lorelei, Stanza 3.
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre (c. 1607-08), Act I, scene 4, line 75.
Awake, My fairest, my espous'd, my latest found, Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight!
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book V, line 17.
Quoth the Ocean, "Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land."
jean ingelow— Jean Ingelow, Winstanley, The Apology.
Delle belle eruditissima, delle erudite bellissima . Translated: "Most learned of the fair; fairest of the learned".
— Attributed to Sannazarius by Greswell in his Memoirs of Politian, inscribed to Cassandra Marchesia an edition of his Italian Poems, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dead Pan, Stanza 39
Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above! Beneath the sliding sun thou runn'st thy race, Dost fairest shine, and best become thy place; For thee the winds their eastern blasts forbear, Thy mouth reveals the spring, and opens all the year; Thee, goddess, thee, the storms of winter fly, Earth smiles with flowers renewing, laughs the sky.
john dryden— John Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, Book III, line 1405.
The fairest flowers o' the season Are our carnations and streak'd gillyvors.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c. 1610-11), Act IV, scene 4, line 81.
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
— As translated by Philip Wheelwright in Heraclitus (1959).
Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights, A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie, Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store, Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more.
robert southwell— Robert Southwell, Content and Rich (Look Home).
