Ah, the souls of those that die
Are but sunbeams lifted higher. [ Longfellow ]

O how beautiful is morning!
How the sunbeams strike the daisies
And the kingcups fill the meadow
Like a golden-shielded army
Marching to the uplands fair. [ D. M. Mulock ]

The dew-drop in the breeze of morn,
Trembling and sparkling on the thorn.
Falls to the ground, escapes the eye,
Yet mounts on sunbeams to the sky. [ Montgomery ]

Sow love, and taste its fruitage pure;
Sow peace, and reap its harvest bright;
Sow sunbeams on the rock and moor.
And find a harvest-home of light. [ Horatius Bonar ]

Sunbeams pour alike their glorious tide
To light up worlds or wake an insect's mirth. [ Keble ]

Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall. [ Alice Cary ]

Tears of joy, like summer rain-drops, are pierced by sunbeams. [ H. Ballou ]

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. [ George Eliot ]

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. [ Southey ]

If you would be pungent, be brief, for it is with words as with sunbeams the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. [ Saxe ]

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement seasons. [ Swift ]

Good words do more than hard speeches; as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveller cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him. [ Leighton ]