Bower of Bliss
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Don’t expect any of these people to share a bower of bliss, though.
From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2013
Yon cottage seems a bower of bliss, A covert for protection Of tender thoughts, that nestle there— The brood of chaste affection.
From Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by Shairp, John Campbell
It was early summer; its great woods were in all their glory; and to me, fresh from shipboard and the vast waste of sea, the place seemed a bower of bliss.
From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life by Payn, James
The one exquisite verse in "Yarrow Unvisited" first ran:— Your cottage seems a bower of bliss, It promises protection To studious ease and generous cares And every chaste affection.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
If you could only see the desolateness of the house where she has wasted away these three years, you would long to make a bower of bliss for her.
From The Trial by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
