ADAM AND EVE

Related Subjects: Bible, Paradise, Parents, Serpent

1. When every pool in Eden was a mirror
   That unto Eve her dainty charms proclaimed.
   She went undraped without a single fear, or
   Thought that she had need to be ashamed.—Anonymous, Needed Apples

2. The woman was not taken
   From Adam's head, you know,
   So she must not command him,
   'Tis evidently so;
   The woman was not taken
   From Adam's feet, you see,
   So he must not abuse her—
   The meaning seems to be.
   The woman she was taken
   From under Adam's arm,
   Which shows he must protect her
   From injury and harm.—Anonymous, Old Scotch Nuptial Song

3. Whilst Adam slept, Eve from his side arose:
   Strange his first sleep should be his last repose.—Anonymous, The Consequence

4. When Adam dolve and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?—JOHN BALL

5. And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.—Bible, Genesis 3:20

6. Grant that the Old Adam in these persons may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in them.—The Book of Common Prayer

7. "The serpent tempted me and I did eat."
   So much of paradisal nature, Eve's!
   Her daughters ever since prefer to urge
   "Adam so starved me I was fain accept
   The apple any serpent pushed my way."—BROWNING, The Ring and the Book

8. That Adam, called "the happiest of men."—BYRON, Don Juan

9. The High God, when he hadde Adam maked,
   And saw him all alone, belly-naked,
   God of his greate goodness sedye then,
   "Let us now make a help unto this man
   Like to himself;" and then he made him Eve.—CHAUCER, The Marchantes Tale

10. The fall of the first Adam was the end of the beginning; the rise of the second Adam was the beginning of the end.—S. W. DUFFIELD

11. It is not fair to visit all
    The blame on Eve, for Adam's fall;
    The most Eve did was to display
    Contributory negligee.—OLIVER HERFORD, Eve: Apropos de Rien

12. Her rash hand in evil hour
    Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat ;
    Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat
    Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe,
    That all was lost.—MILTON, Paradise Lost

13. Adam the goodliest man of men since born
    His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.—MILTON, Paradise Lost

14. In Adam's fall
    We sinned all.—The New England Primer

15. From you blue heavens above us bent,
    The grand old gardener and his wife,
    Smile at the claims of long descent.—TENNYSON, Lady Clara Vere de Vere

16. Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was, that they escaped teething.—MARK TWAIN, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

17. Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.—MARK TWAIN, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

18. Think how poor Mother Eve was brought
    To being as God's afterthought.—ANNA WICKHAM, To Men