Dew Quotes - Page 5

• Come quickly -- as soon as these blossoms open, they fall. This world exists as a sheen of dew on flowers.

  Izumi Shikibu

  Flower, Fall, World

  Liza Lim, Izumi Shikibu (2000). “Burning house: for koto and voice (1 performer) (1995)”

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• A great acacia, with its slender trunk
  And overpoise of multitudinous leaves.
  (In which a hundred fields might spill their dew
  And intense verdure, yet find room enough)
  Stood reconciling all the place with green.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Green, Might, Rooms

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.426

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• The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves the air to rustle among them with a sweeter music and the sky itself to look more blue and bright. Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects.

  Charles Dickens

  Exercise, Air, Blue

  Charles Dickens (1849). “The Novels and Tales of Charles Dickens, (Boz.).”, p.135

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• White dew- one drop on each thorn

  Yosa Buson

  Flower, White

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• Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Morning, Land, Greek

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1869). “Oldtown Folks”, p.219

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• Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,
  With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,
  Steel-true and blade-straight,
  The great artificer made my mate.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Eye, Poetry, Gold

  'Songs of Travel' (1896) 'My Wife'

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• If our faith can live without God, it is not divinely created. If God had begotten it, it would wait upon Him as the flowers wait upon the dew.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Motivation, Flower, Inspiration

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Diana L. Matisko (1984). “Evening by Evening”, Whitaker Distribution

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• Did you not look upon the world this morning and imagine it as the boy might see it? And did you not recognize the mist and the dew and the birdsong as elements not of a place or a time but of a spirit? And did you not envy the boy his spirit? For you know there can be no power over him who freely gives what another would take. Such a one has the capacity to love. Freely, naively, to say I do.

  Jamie O'Neill

  Morning, Boys, Capacity To Love

  Jamie O'Neill (2002). “At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• The white man has settled like a locust over Africa, and, like the locusts in early morning, cannot take flight for the heaviness of the dew on their wings. But the dew that weights the white man is the money that he makes from our labor.

  Doris Lessing

  Morning, Men, White Man

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• There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven.

  Jean Ingelow

  Rain, Heaven, Despair

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.56

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• One naked star has waded through
  The purple shallows of the night,
  And faltering as falls the dew
  It drips its misty light.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Stars, Fall, Night

  James Whitcomb Riley (1993). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.147, Indiana University Press

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• There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Rain, Flower

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• If we lived forever, if the dews of Adashino never vanished, if the crematory smoke on Toribeyama never faded, men would hardly feel the pity of things. The beauty of life is in its impermanence. Man lives the longest of all living things... and even one year lived peacefully seems very long. Yet for such as love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Dream, Night, Men

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• Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the acre lies

  Howard Mumford Jones

  Lying, Flower, Butterfly

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• Modesty and dew love the shade.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Retirement, Shade, Modesty

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• Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts
  The world were poor in thanks, though every soul
  Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade
  Of grass, and every atomie of earth
  To utter it like dew.

  Philip James Bailey

  God, Dear Lord, Soul

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.406

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• I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Falling In Love, Eye, Childhood

  Danielle Trussoni (2010). “Angelology: A Novel”, p.284, Penguin

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• God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. O love! O affliction! ye are the guides that show us the way through the great airy space where our loved ones walked; and, as hounds easily follow the scent before the dew be risen, so God teaches us, while yet our sorrow is wet, to follow on and find our dear ones in heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Eye, Land, Dear Ones

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.32

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• Because of the conflicts and challenges we face in today’s world, I wish to suggest a single choice—a choice of peace and protection and a choice that is appropriate for all. That choice is faith. Be aware that faith is not a free gift given without thought, desire, or effort. It does not come as the dew falls from heaven. The Savior said, “Come unto me” (Matthew 11:28) and “Knock, and it shall be [given] you” (Matthew 7:7). These are action verbs—come, knock. They are choices. So I say, choose faith.

  Richard C. Edgley

  Fall, Free Gifts, Choices

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• When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Pride, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.73

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• The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Flower, May, Cups

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.208

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• Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
  Sailed off in a wooden shoe, -
  Sailed on a river of crystal light
  Into a sea of dew.

  Eugene Field

  Night, Light, Sea

  "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" l. 1 (1889)

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• Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.

  Moses

  Rain, Fall, Teaching

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• They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Twilight, Talking, Two

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.340, Hamilton Books

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• The careful insect 'midst his works I view,
  Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew,
  With golden treasures load his little thighs,
  And steer his distant journey through the skies.

  John Gay

  Flower, Journey, Views

  John Gay (1863). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: With a Life of the Author”, p.188

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