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Tag Name "Delight" (1063)

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The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Grace means the free, unmerited, unexpected love of God, and all the benefits, delights, and comforts which flow from it. It means that while we were sinners and enemies we have been treated as sons and heirs.
Richard Hanson
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And what delights can equal those That stir the spirit's inner deeps, When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one that loves and knows?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down in their desire And, isled in sudden seas of light, My heart, pierced thro' with fierce delight, Bursts into blossom in his sight.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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A fine meal...is a delight in itself add a glass of wine-gleaming red or translucent greenish gold-and delectation will be doubled.
Alexis Lichine
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After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.
Karel Capek
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
Alexander Pope
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Energy is eternal delight.
William Blake
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The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
William Blake
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
Alexander Pope
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Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
William Blake
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Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.
William Blake
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Energy is the only life, and is from the body and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.
William Blake
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Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.
Jane Grigson
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Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
William Butler Yeats
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A framed photo on a dusty bookshelf caught his attention he moved closer and picked it up silently. A small girl with long blond hair was standing under a tree, her face tilted up in delight as its feathery leaves brushed across her face, framing it. A willow tree. Willow.
L.A. Weatherly
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There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.
William Carlos Williams
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Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.
Gene Roddenberry
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It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements
William Carlos Williams
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If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
William Congreve
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[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.
William Cowper
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Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.
James Hogg
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