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Sa'id) (born 1930), also known by the pseudonym Adonis or Adunis (Arabic: أدونيس), is a Syrian poet and essayist who has made his career largely in Lebanon...

contributed to England's Helicon four poems, including "Diaphenia" and "Venus and Adonis". His style is characterised by fervour and richness of colour. Diaphenia...

So is her face illumin'd with her eye. William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (1593), line 482. But hers, which through the crystal tears gave light,...

Fishe and gesse in three dayes are stale. P. 305./306. I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head. P. 308. For experience teacheth me that...

hunger! And Menophila, who used to call you her sweety and her darling Adonis, now asks your name. “What man are you, and whence, your city where?”* You...

Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Two Noble Kinsmen Venus and Adonis The Winter's Tale Last Words in Shakespeare William Shakespeare quotes about...

silver breast The sun ariseth in his majesty. William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis;;, line 853. Hail to thee blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from...

were always Black. Venus, Jupiter, Apollo, Bacchus, Hercules, Asteroth, Adonis, Horus, Apis, Osiris, Anon, in short all the wood and stone. Godfrey Higgins...

translated by Françoise Lesure and Richard Langham Smith, p. 243 The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ. On the tale of Saint Sebastian, as told by...

Save a proud rider on so proud a back. William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (1593), line 295. I saw them go; one horse was blind, The tails of both...

him is beauty slain, And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again. Venus and Adonis (1593), line 1,019. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day, As after...

nonsense in her poetry. Tatian, Oratio ad Graecos, 33 Sillier than Praxilla’s Adonis. Saying quoted by Zenobius, Proverbs, 4, 21 (see above): "For none but a...

and Tomorrow", Collected Essays (1959), pp. 293–94; first published in Adonis and the Alphabet (1956). We think we have got freedom of the press. When...

fight. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Hector in the Garden. Ah, ah, Qytherea! Adonis is dead. She wept tear after tear, with the blood which was shed, , And...

efficient means for going backwards. "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" in Adonis and the Alphabet (1956); later in Collected Essays (1959), p. 293 We may...

As if the dead the living should exceed. William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (1593), line 291. I've fought the good fight. And now it’s all over, there's...

κουμουνιστές είναι πάντα καλύτεροι. In capitalism, communists are always better. Adonis Georgiadis about the way the Communist Party of Greece handles money (12...

moisture Osiris, heat Typhon, or again, water Kronos, the fruits of the earth Adonis, and wine Dionysus. To say that these objects are sacred to the Gods, like...

Rot and consume themselves in little time. William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (1593), line 129 Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off, And let thine...

Powell's whole career. Dick Taverne, 'Chancellor of the Exchequer', in Andrew Adonis and Keith Thomas (eds.), Roy Jenkins: A Retrospective (2004), pp. 96–97...