The very shadows seem to listen. [ Anna Katharine Green ]
The rising moon has hid the stars;
Her level rays, like golden bars,
Lie on the landscape green,
With shadows brown between. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]
Bear the burden of the present,
Let the morrow bear its own;
If the morning sky be pleasant.
Why the coming night bemoan?
Holy strivings nerve and strengthen,
Long endurance wins the crown;
When the evening shadows lengthen,
Thou shalt lay the burden down. [ Thomas Mackellar ]
Follow a shadow, it still flies you.
Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;
Let her alone, she will court you.
Say are not women truly then,
Styled but the shadows of us men? [ Ben Jonson ]
Our prayers are the shadows of mercy. [ Spurgeon ]
It lifts the boughs, whose shadows deep,
Are life's oblivion, the soul's sleep,
And kisses the closed eyes
Of him who slumbering lies. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]
Like our shadows
Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. [ Young ]
Coming events cast their shadows before. [ Thomas Campbell ]
Dear eyes! - do not my heart forsake.
Shine, like the stars within the lake, -
Shine, and the darksome shadows break. [ Augustine J. H. Dugane ]
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. [ John Fletcher ]
Vast and deep the mountain shadows grew. [ Rogers ]
Wisdom adorns riches, and shadows poverty. [ Socrates ]
These faces in the mirrors
Are but the shadows and phantoms of myself. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
The lovely town was white with apple blooms.
And the great elms o'erhead
Dark shadows wove on their serial looms.
Shot through with golden thread. [ Longfellow ]
But dreams full oft are found of real events
The form and shadows. [ Joanna Baillie ]
Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows,
Which show like grief itself, but are not so:
For sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears,
Divides one thing entire to many objects. [ William Shakespeare ]
Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,
That I may see my shadow as I pass. [ William Shakespeare ]
What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue! [ Burke ]
Love's heralds should be thoughts,
Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams
Driving back shadows over lowering hills. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]
The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary.
And I am near to fall, infirm and weary. [ Longfellow ]
Our ideas, like pictures, are made up of lights and shadows. [ Joubert ]
He that bears a torch shadows himself to give light to others. [ Proverb ]
And the shadows lengthen as they fall from the lofty mountains. [ Virgil ]
Some there be that shadows kiss; such have but a shadow's bliss. [ William Shakespeare ]
A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. [ H. W. Beecher ]
We stand in our own light wherever we go, and fight our own shadows forever. [ Owen Meredith ]
The morrow, fair with purple beams, dispersed the shadows of the misty night. [ Spenser ]
No, no! I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here. [ William Shakespeare ]
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows and of lending existence to nothing. [ Burke ]
What folly can be ranker? Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. [ Young ]
And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows. [ Coleridge ]
In this world, full often our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. [ Beecher ]
Flatterers are but the shadows of princes' bodies; the least thick cloud makes them invisible. [ John Webster ]
The very afflictions of our earthly pilgrimage are presages of our future glory, as shadows indicate the sun. [ Richter ]
Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights. [ Ruskin ]
To attack vices in the abstract without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows. [ Junius ]
O the things unseen, untold, undreamt of, which like shadows pass hourly over that mysterious world, a mind to ruin struck by grief! [ Mrs. Hemans ]
To the Christian, these shades are the golden haze which heaven's light makes, when it meets the earth, and mingles with its shadows. [ H. W. Beecher ]
The day of life spent in honest and benevolent labor comes in hope to an evening calm and lovely; and though the sun declines, the shadows that he leaves behind are only to curtain the spirit unto rest. [ Henry Giles ]
The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they all lie behind us; at noon we trample them under foot; and in the evening they stretch long, broad, and deepening before us. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Why destroy present happiness by a distant misery, which may never come at all, or you may never live to see it? For every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of them shadows of your own making. [ Sydney Smith ]
We are born for a higher destiny than earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
At the morning hour, when the half-awakened sun, trampling down the lingering shadows of the west, spreads his ruby-tinted tresses over jessamines and roses, drying with cloths of gold Aurora's tears of mingled fire and snow, which the sun's rays converted into pearls. [ Calderon ]