I wish we could live on air, perfume of flowers, sunbeams and the like.
There are patches of sunlight on the grass, not paint, but the warm, intangible sunbeams that drop from the sky to the earth--that wonderful Campagna!
Tall shrubs bent forward on either side of it, and their small leaves almost meeting, were transformed by the radiant sunbeams into tongues of pale fire, quivering, well nigh transparent.
For the blood was full of sunbeams dancing to a lilt of Apollo.
In the dawn the desert was the home of the breeze, of gentle sunbeams and of liberty.
The scene represents a solitude, very rugged and sublime--mountains upon every side, with their tops covered with snow, while through the dark clouds in the sky a few straggling sunbeams find their way to the valley.
Pretty soon Rose began to think of something more substantial than bird-songs, sunbeams and flowers.
Rivulets that shine and sing, Sunbeams abetting,-- No more remembering Their frozen fretting.
I was exceedingly fond of travelling in the cars, and it seemed as if a thousand sunbeams had suddenly fallen upon my young life.
Morning will come, with its sweet surprise, Waken the flowers, and scatter the dew; But never again shall the baby's eyes Watch the sunbeams break through.
The sunbeams were golden bars of dust, crossing and interlacing in the twilight of the windowless walls.
The big double door was closed to keep out the cold wind, but plenty of air and numerous sunbeams managed to come in.
The sunbeams kissing her golden hair, Her cheeks, her round arms dimpled and bare, Seemed stamping value of mighty wealth On youth, and love, and the bloom of health.
We catch a glimpse of it, gaunt and gray, When the golden sunbeams are all abroad; We sober a moment, then softly say: The world still lies in the hand of God.
Jules, the sculptor, will wed his Phene to-day: nothing can disturb their happiness, their sunbeams are in their own breasts.
The slanting sunbeams struck across the trees, which melted, farther off, into the blue shadow of the bush.
The opposite slope was in shadow, but the slanting sunbeams touched a belt of fresh growth that glowed a vivid green against the somber color of the surrounding trees.
The sunbeams came slant and cool upon the white frost outside, as Jane opened the door; and so when the door was shut they stole in upon the undusted hall and rooms.
The sun got lower, and the sunbeams came more scattering, and the breeze just stirred over the lawn, not enough to bend the little short blades of grass.
When the sun stung he sought the shady side of the hut, and groaned grievously when the pursuing sunbeams forced him to shift his quarters.
He felt himself too weak to stir at first, so he lay still, occasionally opening his eyes to watch the slanting sunbeams play among the tangled foliage, and light up the dewdrops that trembled on every leaf.
And so the shadows fall apart, And so the sunbeams play; And all the windows of my heart I open to the day.
But almost with the sunbeams came the terrible cloud overspreading all our lives.
Rich in a thousand radiant dyes, Around her steps the flow'rets rise, The Zephyr sports, the sunbeams sleep On the blue bosom of the deep.
On the sea The sunbeams tremble; and the purple light Illumes the dark Bolerium,[10] seat of storms.
What knows the seed in the ground of the effect which the refreshing dew and the warm sunbeams are to have in producing from it vegetation and flowers?
While he slept, the sunbeams came through the window and made bright circles round his head; and the white doves that lived in the church tower flew through an open window to look at him.
Tis their marriage day; Hand clasping hand, within each breast would be Sunbeams and pleasant weather, spite of thee.
The fervour of the sunbeams descending in a tidal flood rings on the strung harp of earth.
Night and day he knows, the cool night, and the sunbeamsin which he basks; but he has no way of ascertaining the nature of anything outside the water.
And April is here with her rich varied skies, Where the sunbeams of hope with the tempest contend, And the bright drops that flow from her deep azure eyes On the bosom of nature like diamonds descend.
Unclouded and fair is the morn of thy birth, The first lovely day in a season of gloom; Whilst a pilgrim and stranger thou treadest this earth, May the sunbeams of hope gild thy path to the tomb.
Let us gather up the sunbeams Lying all around our path; Let us keep the wheat and roses, Casting out the thorns and chaff; Let us find our sweetest comfort In the blessings of to-day, With a patient hand removing All the briars from our way.
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.
And where he walks the mere sunbeams Drop blessings on him.
Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his hope with all.
Whilst I was advancing with full speed, the sunbeams began to shoot athwart the mountains, the plains to light up by degrees, and their shrubberies of myrtle to glisten with dewdrops.
Every cloud was dispersed when I arose; the sunbeams glittered on the stream, and the purity and transparency of the tether added new charms to the woody eminences around.
The sunbeams had not yet penetrated into this religious quarter; and the only light it received proceeded from the golden lamps, which hang in clusters round the sanctuary.
More than two hundred vessels of different sizes were in sight, the last sunbeams purpling their sails, and casting a path of innumerable brilliants athwart the waves.
The sunbeams seem to be all tangled together in that spot.
They think those tangled sunbeams are the footfall of April, and so they chirrup, and flutter, and bow to them, and seem to ask where gentle May is, and when she is coming with her music and flowers.
Ye grasses, don your diamond dew, And let the sunbeams twinkle through!
And now the sunbeams have kissed the lovely child and taken her away with them.
Yesterday I told it to the Pelesch, whose rushing and foaming waterfall seemed to make moan, the leaves of the beech trees whispered and trembled and the sunbeams came flying to me.
I can now accurately tell the season of the year and, often, the hour of the day by the way in which the first sunbeams fall into my room and on my workbench in the morning.
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