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Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began. A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.
Sleeping Beauty (French: La Belle au bois dormant, or The Beauty Sleeping in the Wood [1] [a]; German: Dornröschen, or Little Briar Rose), also titled in English as The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods, is a fairy tale about a princess cursed by an evil fairy to sleep for a hundred years before being awakened by a handsome prince.
16. "What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” — John Steinbeck. 17. "Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean.”
Sonnet 130 satirizes the concept of ideal beauty that was a convention of literature and art in general during the Elizabethan era. Influences originating with the poetry of ancient Greece and Rome had established a tradition of this, which continued in Europe's customs of courtly love and in courtly poetry, and the work of poets such as Petrarch.
He was struck by her unusual beauty, and the next morning the poem was written. [3] It is thought that she was the first inspiration for his unfinished epic poem about Goethe, a personal hero of his. In this unpublished work, which Byron referred to in his letters as his magnum opus, he switches the gender of Goethe and gives him the same ...
It's a story that's likely to give independent women the jitters; living beholden to a demanding king and a conniving mythical creature is no one's idea of romance. The straw-to-gold quandary is the plot device driving the Grimms' version of the age-old fable, published by Georg Reimer in 1812.
"With Her Eyes" (Chinese: 带上她的眼睛; pinyin: dài shàng tā de yǎnjīng) is a science-fiction short story by Chinese writer Liu Cixin, first published in October 1999. The short story was included in the collection The Wandering Earth published by Head of Zeus in October 2017.
She previously held the record for the most top 10 hits by a female country artist until Reba McEntire surpassed her in 2009 with her 56th top 10 hit, "Cowgirls Don't Cry". Parton is the first artist to have top 20 hits on Billboard' s Hot Country Songs chart in six consecutive decades (1960s–2010s).