Grave

Now he is dead! Far hence he lies In the lorn Syrian town;
And on his grave , with shining eyes , The Syrain stars look down .

Mattew Arnold

stars

For Stars fall everytime a lover has to face the truth,
And far too many Stars have fell on me....

Dan Fogelburg

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,

And burnt the topless towers if Ilium?

Marlowe

Tower

Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set ,
And blew,Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came .

Robert Browning

lips

Love guards the roses of thy lips
And flies about them like a bee;
If I approach he forward skips,
And if I kiss he stingeth me.

~ Thomas Lodge

Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me,

That now she knows.

Waller

rose

Unkempt about those hedges blows
An English unofficial rose.

~Rupert Brooke

You spotted snakes with double tongue,

Thorny hedge-hogs, not be seen.


Midsummer Night's Dream

seen

Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.

J.B.Morton

The padre said."Whatever have you been and done and gone?"

W S Gilbert (of G and Sullivan )

done

One never notices what has been done ; one can only see what remains to be done .

Marie Curie

The thorns he spares when the rose is taken.

The rocks are left when he wastes the plain.

The wind that wanders, the weeds wind-shaken,

These remain.


Swinburne

Rose

What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet .

William Shakespeare

name

'Yossarian? Is that his name? Yossarian? What the hell kind of name is Yossarian?'
Luitenant Scheisskopf had the facts at his fingertips.
'It's Yossarian's name, sir,' he explained.

~ Joseph Heller, Catch-22

Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more,

One task more declined, one more footpath untrod.


Robert Browning