Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.

-Donne,John
c.1595^1605  'A  Valediction: Forbidding Mourning', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

What use the green river, the gold place, if time and death pinned human in the pocket of my land not rest from taking underground the green all-willowed and white rose and bean flower and morning-mist picnic of song in pepper-pot breast of thrush?

-Frame,Janet Paterson also known as Jean PatersonFrame
Owls Do Cry, pt.1, ch.4.

   Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all that glistersgold.

-Gray,Thomas
  Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes, l.40^3. Derived from 'All that glitters is not gold', The Merchant of  Venice, act 2, scene 7.

Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.

-Grillparzer, Franz
  Sappho, act 2, sc.4.

Pike, three inches long, perfect Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold. Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin.

-Hughes,Ted (Edward James)
  'Pike'.

Good morning to the day; and next, my gold!

-Jonson, Ben
  Volpone, act1, sc.1.

I'd have your tongue, sir, tipped with gold for this.

-Jonson, Ben
  Volpone, act 4, sc.6.

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold.

-Keats,John
  'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer', l.1. (Published in The Examiner 1816.)

West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with

-Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
British  writer  and  columnist.  He  is  best  known  as  a  humorist, and also writes on jazz.

Where words prevail not, violence prevails; But gold doth more than either of them both.

-Kyd,Thomas
c.1589  The Spanish Tragedy, act 2, sc.1.

  Ne posse¤  dait pas l'or; mais l'or le posse¤  dait. He never owned his gold; his gold owned him.

-La Fontaine,Jean de
  Fables, pt.4, no.20,'L'avare qui a perdu son tre¤  sor'.

I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl. 552

-Marlowe, Christopher
c.1592  Doctor Faustus (published1604), act1, sc.1.

How am I glutted with conceit of this! Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates.

-Marlowe, Christopher
c.1592  Doctor Faustus (published1604), act1, sc.1.

And to this day is every scholar poor; Gross gold from them runs headlong to the boor.

-Marlowe, Christopher
  Hero and Leander (published1598), pt.1, l.477^8.

Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold.

-Masters, Edgar Lee
  Spoon River Anthology,'Sersmith the Dentist'.

A king who wants to maintain an army can never have too much gold.

-More, SirThomas
  Utopia (English translation1556), bk.1.

All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.

-Plato
Leges,728a (translated byTrevorJ Saunders,1970).

Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

-Pope, Alexander
An Essay on Criticism, l.293^8.

'A chain of gold ye sall not lack, Nor braid to bind your hair; Nor mettled hound, nor managed hawk, Nor palfrey fresh and fair.'

-Scott, Sir Walter
  'Jock of Hazeldean', stanza 3.

Look not thou on beauty's charming,ö Sit thou still when kings are arming.ö Taste not when the wine-cup glistens,ö Speak not when the people listens,ö Stop thine ear against the singer,ö From the red gold keep thy finger,ö Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,ö Easy live and quiet die.

-Scott, Sir Walter
  The Bride of Lammermoor, ch.3 (LucyAshton's song).