She wails in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

The dark night makes every woman beautiful.....
In the dark all blemishes are hid,
every fault overlooked, that hour any woman fair. . . .
Don not let too strong a light
come into your bedroom. There are in a
beauty a great many things thick are
enhanced by being seen only in a half-height.

Body of woman, I will live on through your marvellousness.
my thirst, my desire without end, my wavering road!
Dark river beds down which the eternal thirst is flowing,
and the fatigue in flowing, and the grief without shore

Beauty is never satisfied with beauty.
Helen gazing in her glass,
framed by lecherous curtains,
the enchanted bed,
yet she felt life pass about her.

I hope you have lost your good looks,
for while they last, any fool can adore you,
and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.
No, give me a ruined
complexion and a lost figure
and sixteen chins on a farmyard of
crow's feet and an obvious wig.
Then you shall see me come out strong.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. but if you are
beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing.

An angel stood and met my gaze,
through the low doorway of m tent;
the tent is struck, the vision stays;
I only knows she came and went.

My love in her attire doth show her wit,
It doth so well become her;
for every season she hath dressings fir,
For winter, spring and summer.
No beauty she doth miss,
When all her robes are on;
but beauty's self she is,
When all her robes are gone.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
The lust of the goat is the beauty of God.
The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

I know a man thou, when he saw a woman of striking
beauty, praised the Creator for her.
The sight of are lit within him love of God.

There is only one kind of beauty that can transcend time,
and many women possess it is, of course,
beauty of the spirit that lights the
eyes and transform even a plain woman
into a beautiful one. Women with wit,
charm and warmth,
\who are interested in others and forget themselves,
and who accept each stage of life gracefully,
are the lasting beauties of this world-and the happiest.
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