Stand on the highest pavement of the stair Lean on a garden urn Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.
Who says that fictions onlyand false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair?
George HerbertThou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show Of touch or marble, nor canst boast a row Of polished pillars, or a roof of gold; Thou hast no lantern whereof tales are told, Or stair, or courts; but standst an ancient pile, And these grudged at, art reverenced the while.
Ben JonsonPoorpeoplestaying intheir houses aslong astill thevery fire touched them, and then running into boats or clambering from one pair of stair by the waterside to another. And among other things, the poor pigeons I perceive were loath to leave their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconies till they were some of them burned, their wings, and fell down.
Samuel PepysHer mouth Was roses gather'd from the south, The warm south side of Paradise, And breathed upon and handed down, By angels on a stair of stars.
joaquin millerSae true his heart, sae smooth his speech, His breath like caller air, His very foot has music in 't, As he comes up the stair.
william julius mickleWhen you reach for a star, only angels are there. And it's not very far, just a step on a stair.
Kate BushLeopards on the gable-ends, Leopards on the painted stair, Stiff the blazoned shield they bear, Or and gules, a bend of vair, Leopards on the gable-ends, Leopards everywhere.
Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair; A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given; And death was safety and great joy to find; But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.
A sinning nun, her face in a plate of cakes, caught my eye as I descended on the moving stair.