"Undecaying" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and stayed and went, and now when all is finished, You alone have crossed the melancholy stream, Yours the pang, but his, O his, the undiminished, Undecaying gladness, undeparted dream. ...
— An American Idyll - The Life of Carleton H. Parker • Cornelia Stratton Parker
... hope of rendering our tranquillity permanent. I add with pleasure that the probability even of their civilization is not diminished by the experiments which have been thus far made under the auspices of Government. The accomplishment of this work, if practicable, will reflect undecaying luster on our national character and administer the most grateful consolations that virtuous minds ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... writings are the veins, the arteries, And undecaying life-strings of those hearts, That still shall pant and still shall exercise Their mightiest powers when Nature none imparts; And the strong constitution of their praise Wear out ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 180, April 9, 1853 • Various
... on the Falls! I have read of moonlight on the ruins of the Coliseum; in the mouldering remains of Grecian elegance and Roman magnificence; but what is it compared to this? The eternal youth, the undecaying grandeur of nature, illumined by that celestial light which lends glory to ruins, and throws the illusion of beauty ...
— Ernest Linwood - or, The Inner Life of the Author • Caroline Lee Hentz
... this strange state of undecaying wood? What sort of latent life has it, which it only finally parts with ...
— Proserpina, Volume 1 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin |
