| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Sweetness |
| | | The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. Swift. | 1 |
| | The sweetest thing that ever grew |
| Beside a human door. |
Wordsworth. | 2 |
| | Sweets to the sweet; farewell. |
Shakespeare. | 3 |
| The sweetest garland to the sweetest maid. Tickell. | 4 |
| | Tis sweet to hear |
| At midnight, on the blue and moonlight deep, |
| The song and oar of Adrias gondolier, |
| By distance mellowd, oer the waters sweep; |
| Tis sweet to see the evening star appear; |
| Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep |
| From leaf to leaf; tis sweet to view on high |
| The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky. |
| Sweet is the vintage, when the showering grapes |
| In Bacchanal profusion reel to earth, |
| Purple and gushing; sweet are our escapes |
| From civic revelry to rural mirth; |
| Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps; |
| Sweet to the father is his first borns birth; |
| Sweet is revengeespecially to women, |
| Pillage to soldiers, prize-money to seamen. |
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| Tis sweet to hear the watch-dogs honest bark |
| Bay deep-mouthd welcome as we draw near home: |
| Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark |
| Our coming, and look brighter when we come: |
| Tis sweet to be awakend by the lark, |
| Or lulld by falling waters; sweet the hum |
| Of bees, the voice of girls, the song of birds, |
| The lisp of children and their earliest words. |
Byron. | 5 | | |
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