The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew, The heart less bounding at emotion new, And hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.

-Arnold, Matthew
  New Poems,'Thyrsis', l.138^40.

O waly, waly up the bank, And waly, waly doun the brae, And waly, waly yon burn-side Where I and my love wont to gae. I lean'd my back unto an aik, I thocht it was a trustie tree; But first it bow'd, and syne it brakeö Sae my true love did lichtlie me. O waly, waly, gin love be bonnie A little time while it is new; But when 'tis auld it waxeth cauld And fades awa' like morning dew. O wherefore should I busk my heid, O wherefore should I kame my hair? For my true love has me forsook, And says he'll never lo'e me mair.

-Ballads
pre-1566  'Waly, Waly', opening stanzas.

Give ear,O ye heavens, and I will speak: and hear,O earth, the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon thetender herb, and as the showers upon the grass.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Deuteronomy 32:1^2.

Haththeraina father? or who hathbegottenthedrops of dew?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job 38:28.

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the L commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms133:1^3.

The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till hishairsweregrown like eagles'feathers, and his nails like birds'claws.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Daniel 4:33.

Rorate, coeli, desuper, et nubes pluant Justum; aperiatur terra, et germinet Salvatorem. Drop downdew, heavens, fromabove, and lettheclouds rain down righteousness; let the earth be opened, and a saviour spring to life.

-Bible (Vulgate)
Isaiah 45:8.

Pour upon them the continual dew of thy blessing.

-Book of Common Prayer
Morning Prayer, Prayer for the Clergy and People.

Inebriate of Airöam Iö And Debauchee of Dewö Reelingöthro endless summer daysö From inns of Molten Blueö

-Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth
c.1860  Complete Poems, no.214 (first published1861).

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoeö Sailed on a river of crystal light, Into a sea of dew.

-Field, Eugene
  'Wynken, Blynken, and Nod'.

  I am†a mushroom On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

-Ford,John
  The Broken Heart, act1, sc.3.

She found me roots of relish sweet, And honey wild, and manna dew; And sure in language strange she said, 'I love thee true.'

-Keats,John
  'La Belle Dame Sans Merci', stanza 7.

The aloe seemed to ride†like a ship with the oars lifted. Bright moonlight hung upon the lifted oars like water, and on the green wave glittered the dew.

-Beauchamp
  Bliss and Other Stories,'Prelude'.

See how the Orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into the blowing roses, Yet careless of its mansion new; For the clear region where 'twas born Round in its self encloses: And in its little globes extent, Frames as it can its native element.

-Marvell, Andrew
c.1650^1652  'On a Drop of Dew' (published1681).

Happy happy time, when the white star hovers Low over dim fields fresh with blooming dew, Near the face of dawn, that draws athwart the darkness, Threading it with colour, like yewberries the yew.

-Meredith, George
Poems,'Love in the Valley', stanza 7. The poem was revised and republished in1878.

   The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr with Aurora playing, As he met her once a-Maying, There on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses washed in dew, Filled her with a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair.

-Milton,John
c.1631 L'Allegro, l.18^24. The'daughter fair' is Euphrosyne, or Mirth, one of the Three Graces.

Here Vaughan lies dead, whose name flows on for ever Through pastures of the spirit washed with dew And starlit with eternities unknown.

-Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain
  The Heart'sJourney, pt.23,'At the Grave of HenryVaughan'.

   Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou art gone, and for ever!

-Scott, Sir Walter
  The Lady of the Lake, canto 3, stanza16,'Coronach'.

Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable numberö Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep has fallen on youö Ye are manyöthey are few.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  'The Mask of Anarchy'.

O Love,O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'Fatima', stanza 3.