If my veins and my breasts with love embossed
Withered, my insolent soul would be gone like flowers that the hot wind took.
If my veins and my breasts with love embossed
Withered, my insolent soul would be gone like flowers that the hot wind took.
So hath Trade withered up Love's sinewy prime,
Men love not women as in olden time.
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries.
Saint John, pray for us, weary souls that tarry
Where life is withered by sin's deadly breath.
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!
There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.
Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, that host on the morrow lay withered and strewn.
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
I will be glad because it is the Spring;
I will forget the winter in my heart--
Dead hopes and withered promise; and will wring
A little joy from life ere life depart.
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit so shall ye be my disciples.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
What read you in that withered face?
My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
Nothing makes you feel that you've overstayed your welcome like a flower arrangement that has withered and died.
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
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