Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.
The man is indecisively unable to deal with adversity and is oppressed by something which should not oppress him. He leans on things like thorns and thistles, which are hazardous yet cannot support him.
The one you love leans forward, smiles, deceives you,
Opens a door through which you see dark dreams.
Nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.
I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.
The naked earth is warm with Spring, And with green grass and bursting trees Leans to the sun's kiss glorying, And quivers in the sunny breeze.
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand O that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek.
Vane, young in years, but in sage counsel old, Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arms, repelled The fierce Epirot and the African bold, Whether to settle peace, or to unfold The drift of hollow states hard to be spelled, Then to advise how war may, best upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage besides to know Both spiritual power and civil, what each means, What severs each, thou hast learned, which few have done The bounds of either sword to thee we owe Therefore on thy firm hand Religion leans In peace, and reckons thee her eldest son.
I don't look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know.
The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy.
Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.
Such a morning it is when love leans through geranium windows and calls with a cockerel's tongue. When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass, and the sun drips honey.
A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
The horizon leans forward, Offering you space to place new steps of change.
A bachelor is a guy who leans toward women but not far enough to lose his balance.
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© 2020 Inspirational Stories