Sweet

Famous quotes containing the word sweet:

“I see her in the dewy flowers,
I see her sweet and fair:
I hear her in the tunefu’ birds,
I hear her charm the air:”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)

“Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian corn, and not depend on distant and fluctuating markets for them. Yet so far are we from simplicity and independence that, in Concord, fresh and sweet meal is rarely sold in the shops, and hominy and corn in a still coarser form are hardly used by any.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee,
When the ev’ning beams are set?”
—Thomas Campion (1567–1620)