Oh, she was beautiful, and of a sweetness most alluring and fatal!
No more she heard her lover's haunting call; But she herself cried out with aching voice, Whose sweetness dropped with every silver tone From the full note of hope to doubt and fear.
Which puts such tender sweetness in your tones Such brightness in your looks, and makes you turn Upon each other such delighted eyes?
She will smile at you and lie to you with the virginal sweetness of sixteen as cleverly as with the wrinkled craftiness of sixty.
She was young to undertake such an office, but suffering had endowed her with gravity and understanding beyond her years, and her native sweetness was such that she could altogether forget herself in pleading with another for a good end.
The sweetness of the story lay in the fact that the children were both good, and both deserved to be happy; it never occurred to Emma to teach her hearers to hate little Blanche just because hers was the easier lot.
Her face was of the kind that expresses much sweetness in irregular features.
But her sweetness was in the end irresistible to all who came within the circle of its magic.
Kate was not originally blessed with much sweetness of disposition, and an unhappy marriage had made her into a sour, nagging woman.
The first stanza is an elegant paraphrase from Catullus, though the last line fails to render the rhythmical sweetness long-drawn-out of "Nox est perpetua una dormienda.
Dog Hollow, in the Green Mount State, Was his first stopping-place, And then Skunk's Misery displayed Its sweetness and its grace.
As a dove that dips in the dark of maples, To sip the sweetness of shelter and shade, I kneel in thy nimbus, O noon of Naples, I bathe in thine beauty, by thee embayed.
This is the sweetness of an April day; The softness of the spring is on the face Of the old year.
Yet those who feel this grace or sweetness in Michelangelo might at the first moment be puzzled if they were asked wherein precisely such quality resided.
And it is in this penetrative suggestion of life that the secret of that sweetness of his is to be found.
But the austere genius of Michelangelo will not depend for its sweetness on any mere accessories like these.
They are insatiable of music, they cannot have enough of it; they desire a music of greater compass perhaps than words can possibly yield, to drain out the last drops of sweetness which a certain note or accent contains.
The sweetness of it is by no means to be got at by crushing, as you crush wild herbs to get at their perfume.
For the Renaissance has not only the sweetness which it derives from the classical world, but also that curious strength of which there are great resources in the true middle age.
One mite of three years raised, in the midst of its dirt and neglect, a face of such sweetness and innocence, that Charlotte suddenly stooped down and kissed it.
Since the life of her child had been given back to her, a great softness and sweetness had come to Mrs. Home; she had tasted of a mother's bitterest cup, but God had not asked her to drink it to the dregs.
The sweetness and harmony of the time, however, were soon to be disturbed.
Sweetness of disposition, carried to extremes, may degenerate into positive mental feebleness; to my mind this is the case with Father Daniel.
What inexpressible sweetness there was in the word!
The pitiful sweetnessof her face almost drove Carew mad; it could not be mistaken that her heart was beating with sympathy for Eric's sufferings.
He lived but six months; just long enough for his father's restless, dissatisfied heart to taste for once the sweetness of a tie unalloyed with any bitterness, and the memory of it never faded out.
There is a sweetness in your grief--you had been the one happiness of her closing years; but think of the bitterness that was in his.
For a wonder there was no fog upon the Banks; the seas were of an indescribable hue of limpid turquoise, the ship seemed to glide across a far-glimmering floor, and the wind had a tonic sweetness and renewing potency.
And the chief sweetnessof it all lay in the silence of their communion.
It is a picture of perfect sweetness and peace,--a poetic picture in which one can imagine nothing that is harsh, or selfish, or mean.
Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the lake: So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip Into my bosom and be lost in me.
As the wind Sobs, an uncertain sweetness comes from out The orange-trees.
The sweetness of his manners, his fair face and winning smile, still continued to secure him love, and to screen from the common eye whatever of selfishness yet lurked in his nature.
His movements were graceful and self-possessed, and he had his father's sweetness of voice.
Catherine's sweetness of nature preserves her from viewing Gregory with any tinge of contempt; but we cannot help feeling the contrast between this frail woman of heroic soul and the hesitating figure of the Pope.
That exquisite sweetness which often blends in so unique a way with Catherine's authoritative tone, was never more evident.
It is just such a case when one loves God for the sweetness of it; that is, one would not be strong and perfect, but weak and imperfect.
I have just received a Head in my hands, which was to me of such sweetnessas heart cannot think, nor tongue say, nor eye see, nor the ears hear.
He clothes him in My highest and eternal will, because he sees that I neither give nor take away, save for your sanctification; and he sees that love alone impels Me to give you sweetness and to take it from you.
For, receiving His graces and benefits, sharing the sweetness of His charity, we do not mind afterward alighting on miserable things, turning back to the filth of the world.
But had Peter remained absorbed in the sweetness and the fear which he felt in the Passion and after the Passion of Christ, he would not have reached such perfection as to be a son and champion of Holy Church, a lover and seeker of souls.
Once our sweet Saviour said to a very dear daughter of His, "Dost thou know how those people act who want to fulfil My will in consolation and in sweetness and joy?
She would savour the full sweetness of his sacrifice.
The iambics in him began to breathe such sweetness as is on the lips of Alcestis going to her doom.
Presently she paused in front of the mantel to lift the lid from the rose-jar and let its prisoned sweetness escape into the room.
It's the very quintessence of those regions all whose sweetness exudes in sun-saturated balsams,--the very breath of pine woods and salt sea winds.
I wonder what made Lu behave so that night; she scarcely spoke to Rose, appeared entirely unconcerned while he hovered round her like an officious sprite, was all grace to the others and sweetness to Mr. Dudley.
It was beginning to see life, the sweetness of stolen pleasures; and when he entered, he put his hand on the door-handle with a joy almost sensual.
The sweetness of this sensation deepened his sadness; he felt his whole being dissolving in despair at the thought that he must lose her, just when she was confessing more love for him than ever.
They were hand in hand now, and the past, the future, reminiscences and dreams, all were confounded in the sweetness of this ecstasy.
This sweetness of sensation pierced through her old desires, and these, like grains of sand under a gust of wind, eddied to and fro in the subtle breath of the perfume which suffused her soul.
To taste the full sweetness of it, it would have been necessary doubtless to fly to those lands with sonorous names where the days after marriage are full of laziness most suave.
It came over her in a sudden rush of sweetness and perception.
She was the factor, the manager of the small estate, the farm, everything in one; and the universal occupation of Margaret had left the more passive sister time to grow ripe in the patience and sweetness of her less important rôle.
Thus the sweetness was encompassed with bitterness, and surrounded with embarrassment.
Jean walking beside her with her faded sweetness and no expectation any longer in her life, did not effect in the smallest degree the mind of her younger sister.
But even to ask that question seemed a sort of blasphemy against her, against the strange and potent sweetness of his own emotion.
He was elated, delighted, happy; a sort of suffusion of sweetnessand brightness was in his veins, filling up everything.
But there was something in the coolness and sweetness of this still hour which moved Lewis strangely.
He smiled with a new, indescribable sweetness and weariness.
And looking up into the delicate little old face, he noted all the sweetness and brightness which had so long been lost upon the world.
