"Amaranthine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fresh with dew, Could amaranthine be, Their soothing, deep, and glowing hue Would justly speak ...
— Vignettes in Verse • Matilda Betham
... No matter why—to ask a reason, In pedant bigotry is treason. In the broad, beaten turnpike-road Of hacknied panegyric ode, No modern poet dares to ride Without Apollo by his side, Nor in a sonnet take the air, Unless his lady Muse be there; She, from some amaranthine grove, Where little Loves and Graces rove, 90 The laurel to my lord must bear, Or garlands make for whores to wear; She, with soft elegiac verse, Must grace some mighty villain's hearse, Or for some infant, doom'd by Fate To ...
— Poetical Works • Charles Churchill
... amaranthine bowers, Where God's own glory seemed to shine, She saw, on beds of golden flowers, Her dear departed ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCLXXVI. February, 1847. Vol. LXI. • Various
... to street among fair and spacious dwellings, set in amaranthine gardens, and adorned with an infinitely varied beauty of divine simplicity. The mansions differed in size, in shape, in charm: each one seemed to have its own personal look of loveliness; yet all were alike ...
— The Unknown Quantity - A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales • Henry van Dyke
... the amaranthine flower Of faith, and 'round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not ...
— What Great Men Have Said About Women - Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 77 • Various |
