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Draw me to thee down the dark sea of death, Soul of my soul! And she sang: Sad are they who drink life's cup Till they have come to the bitter-sweet: Better at once to toss it up, And trample it beneath the feet; For venom-charged as serpents' eggs 'Tis then, and knows not other change. Early, early, early, have I reached the dregs Of life, and loathe and love the bittersweet, revenge!
Allie shuddered close to him, blinded, stormed by an exquisite bitter-sweet fury of love. She seemed rising, uplifted, filled with rich, strong joy. "I forgave him," she murmured, dreamily low to herself. "War, mebbe you'll be right glad you did presently," said Slingerland, with animation. "'Specially when thar wasn't nothin' much to forgive." Allie became mute. She could not lift her eyes.
But I think I will go home now, and take the chance of another fine day for the merino." The Bitter-sweet of Life. When dinner was over and the table cleared away, the mother and daughter were left, as they always loved to be, alone.
Presently my Elsie, who had been looking down into the now gloomy depths alongside, musing over the bitter-sweet memories of the past, lifted her eyes to mine, glancing heavenwards.
Her narrow face, leaning back in its dark aureole of hair, her strange eyes and bitter-sweet lips all dimmed, as it were, by drowsiness and smoke, and yet never more intelligently awake than at these nocturnal hours remained with him as most typical of Helen's most significant and charming self.
Sweet as the breath of cows came its mingled fragrance of grass and earth and of the fine dust on the roadway, of the bitter-sweet tang of the bracken and faint aftermath of hay; the breath at his nostrils was drunken with sweet odour. He had come back to face Archelaus, it was true, but he came back a man.
But as I grew stronger I turned from the past and its memories, bitter-sweet, and set myself resolutely to the duty of living my life well, independently of its secret unrest and pain.
Labour mingled with love is a certain bitter-sweet, more pleasant to the palate than that which is merely sweet. Thus then does heavenly love conform us to the will of God and make us carefully observe His commandments, this being the will of His Divine Majesty, Whom we desire to please.
"Isn't that a perfectly gorgeous display of chocolates!" and she indicated the window of a confectionery store just in front of them. "Oh, I must have some of those!" cried Grace Ford. "Come on in, girls! I'll treat. They're those new bitter-sweet chocolates. I didn't know Borker kept them.
are full enough of bitter-sweet despair for the last chords of that ineffable, passionate strain the swoon of sorrow ending that brief, palpitating ecstasy, the proper, dirge-like close to that triumphant hymn of love and youth and beauty.
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