Old Testament: Proverbs ch.13 v.19
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.
Browning Robert 1812-1889
‘Confessions'
We loved, sir - used to meet:
How sad and bad and mad it was -
But then, how it was sweet!
Byron Lord 1788-1824
Don Juan
Sweet is revenge - especially to women.
Clare John 1793-1864
"First Love"
I never saw so sweet a face
As that I stood before.
My heart has left its dwelling place
And can return no more.
Dacre Henry
Daisy Bell
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do!
I'm half crazy, all for the love of you!
It won't be a stylish marriage,
I can't afford a carriage,
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle made for two!
Jonson Ben c.1573-1637
Epicene
Give me a look, give me a face,
That makes simplicity a grace;
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free:
Such sweet neglect more taketh me,
Than all the adulteries of art;
They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
Keats John 1795-1821
Endymion
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothiningness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Keats John 1795-1821
‘I stood tip-toe upon a little hill'
Here are sweet peas, on tip-toe for a flight.
Keats John 1795-1821
‘To one who has been long in city pent'
To one who has been long in city pent,
‘Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven.
Lamb Charles 1775-1834
Essays of Elia ‘A Bachelor's Complaint'
I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature ... but the prettier the
kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.
Lauder Sir Harry 1870-1950
‘I Love a Lassie'
I love a lassie, a bonnie, bonnie lassie,
She's as pure as the lily in the dell.
She's as sweet as the heather, the bonnie
bloomin' heather -
Mary, ma Scotch Bluebell.
Lodge Thomas 1558-1625
„Love in my bosom like a bee"
Love in my bosom like a bee
Doth suck his sweet.
Lucretius 99-55 BC
Sweet is it, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.
Marlowe Christopher 1564-1593
Doctor Faustus
Sweet Analytics, ‘tis thou hast ravished me.
Moore Thomas 1779-1852
„Love's Young Dream"
No, there's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.
Newton John 1725-1807
‘Amazing grace'
Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
Newton John 1725-1807
‘How sweet the name of Jesus sounds'
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
In a believer's ear!
It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,
And drives away his fear.
Proverbs and Sayings
Latin
Sweet is war to those who have never experienced it.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Richard II
Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Romeo and Juliet
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
‘The Princess'
Sweet and low, sweet and low,
Wind of the western sea.
Thomas Dylan 1914-1953
Under Milk Wood
Seventeen and never been sweet in the grass ho ho.
Thomas Edward 1878-1917
‘Early one morning in May I set out'
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
