EARTH

Related Subjects: Heavens, Worm, Real Estate

1. Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.—Bible, Job 12:8

2. One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever.—Bible, Ecclesiastes 1:4
   

3. The first man is of the earth, earthy.—Bible, 2 Corinthians 15:47
   

4. So simple is the earth we tread,
   So quick with love and life her frame:
   Ten thousand years have dawned and fled,
   And still her magic is the same.—S. A. BROOKE, The Earth and Man

5. O earth, so noises!—ELIZABETH BROWNING, The Cry of the Children
   

6. Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.—COLERIDGE, Hymn Before Sunrise
   

7. The thirsty earth soaks up the rain,
   And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
   The plants suck in the earth, and are
   With constant drinking fresh and fair.—ABRAHAM COWLEY, Anacreon, II
   

8. The earth was made so various, that the mind
   Of desultory man, studious of change
   And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.—COWPER, The Task
   

9. The earth produces all things, and receives all again.—THOMAS FULLER, Gnomologia
   

10. Earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of God.—S. M. HAGEMAN, Silence
    

11. The poetry of earth is never dead;
    The poetry of earth is ceasing never.—KEATS, On the Grasshopper and Cricket
    

12. I am in love with this green earth.—CHARLES LAMB, Essays of Elia
    

13. O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!—EDGAR LEE MASTERS, Spoon River Anthology
    

14. Hail earth, Mother of all!—MELEAGER

15. Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot
    Which men call Earth.—MILTON, Comus

16. Earth now
    Seemed like to Heav'n, a seat where gods might dwell.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

17. Earth is the best shelter.—Proverb
    

18. The little O, the earth.—SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra
    

19. The earth's a thief,
    That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen
    From general excrement.—SHAKESPEARE, Timon Of Athens
    

20. Earth, Ocean, Air, beloved brotherhood.—SHELLEY, Alastor
    

21. The green earth sends her incense up
    From many a mountain shrine;
    From folded leaf and dewy cup
    She pours her sacred wine.—WHITTIER, The Worship of Nature

22. The common growth of mother-earth
    Suffices me—her tears, her mirth,
    Her humblest mirth and tears.—WORDSWORTH, Peter Bell