LIPS QUOTES III

quotations about lips

Lips quote

Music lives within thy lips
Like a nightingale in roses.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus: A Poem

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Shall this nectar
Run useless, then, to waste? or ... these lips,
That open like the morn, breathing perfumes,
On such as dare approach them, be untouch'd?
They must--nay, 'tis in vain to make resistance--
Be often kissed and tasted.

PHILIP MASSINGER

The Parliament of Love


A woman's lips are a key to her character, and to-day lips have a firmer and more resolute line, for they shape words of command, laugh at danger, and with a smile suppress weariness and pain.

ANONYMOUS

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Lips, like roses dropping myrrh.

GEORGE SANDYS

The Song of Solomon


And all my kisses on thy balmy lips as sweet,
As are the breezes breath'd amidst the groves
Of ripening spices on the height of day:
As vigorous too.

APHRA BEHN

Abdelazar

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She pouted her lips like a gun in my face.

CHINUA ACHEBE

"Misunderstanding", Collected Poems

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Lips moulded in love are tremulously full of the glowing softness they borrow from the heart, and electrically obedient to its impulses.

GRACE GREENWOOD

Greenwood Leaves: a Collection of Sketches and Letters


But when lips' speech mute lips have ratified,
And our hearts' music is intensely blent,
I'll lay me on thy lap, and cry--Content!

THOMAS WADE

"Contentment", Mundi et Cordis


Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet


If I could choose my paradise,
And please myself with choice of bliss,
Then I would have your soft blue eyes
And rosy little mouth to kiss;
Your lips, as smooth and tender, child,
As rose-leaves in a coppice wild.

THOMAS ASHE

"No and Yes", Songs Now and Then


Her lippes, erst like the corall redde,
Did waxe both wan and pale.

ANONYMOUS

"Fair Rosamond", Strange Histories, or Songs and Sonnets of Kinges, Princes, Dukes, Lords, Ladyes, Knights, and Gentlemen


Her eager sense delighted, fondly sips
Th' ambrosiac honey of her lover's lips,
Who while his love-tale telling, roses speaks.

JOHN CADWALADER M'CALL

"The Troubadour", The Troubadour and Other Poems


Heart on her lips and soul within her eyes,
Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.

LORD BYRON

Beppo

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Like the petals of the Rose
When the dews their scent disclose,
Soft as velvet tho' they be,
Fragrant of the Dawn and thee,
Yet thy lips are sweeter far
Than all garden Roses are.

CHARLES WILLIAM CAYZER

"Altar of Roses", By the Way of the Gate


thick lips
devouring drink and women
an elemental force
like Balzac done by Rodin

MARTIN GRAY

Death of Villeneuve and Other Poems


Her lips are roses, overwashed with dew.

ROBERT GREENE

"Menaphon's Eclogue", Greene's Arcadia


Lips with such sweetness in their honeyed deeps
As fills the rose in which a fairy sleeps.

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

King Arthur

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There, the brows of mild repression--there, the lips of silent passion,
Curved like an archer's bow to send the bitter arrows out.

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

Lady Geraldine's Courtship

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My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet


I will kiss thy lips;
Haply, some poison yet doth hang on them.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet