LIPS QUOTES IV

quotations about lips

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Lips like the carmine's ruddy glow.

FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS

"The Ghoul", Honey and Gall: Poems


Lips, like roses dropping myrrh.

GEORGE SANDYS

The Song of Solomon


Music lives within thy lips
Like a nightingale in roses.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus: A Poem

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O Love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

ALFRED TENNYSON

Fatima

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Red lips like a living, laughing rose.

LAURENCE HOPE

"Lost Delight", India's Love Lyrics: Collected & Arranged in Verse


There is life in the lips of true lovers.

OWAIN

attributed, Day's Collacon


You feel on your lips a kiss
Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life ...

ARTHUR RIMBAUD

"Romance", Collected Poems


A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.

EDMOND ROSTAND

Cyrano de Bergerac


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


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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Saith the lover of his mistress: The rose is disgraced by the redness of her cheeks, and the juice of the grape desireth to resemble the moisture of her lips.

IBN MATRÛH

attributed, Day's Collacon


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


Vermilion lips, well shaped, a smiling mouth, beautiful white teeth, an elastic step and plump cheeks, charm at eighteen.

DIDEROT

attributed, Day's Collacon


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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Her lips are like the cherries ripe
That sunny walls from Boreas screen.
They tempt the taste and charm the sight.

ROBERT BURNS

"On Cessnock's Banks"

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

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet


Lips, like hanging fruit, whose hue
Is ruby 'neath a bloom of blue.

THOMAS GORDON HAKE

"The Exile", Poems


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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All women are lips, nothing but lips.

YEVGENY ZAMYATIN

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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