wordplay
Ten most beautiful words according to Hungarian writer Dezso Kosztolanyi:
láng, gyöngy, anya, osz, szuz, kard, csók, vér, szív, and sír (flame, peral, mother, autumn, maiden, sword, kiss, blood, heart, and grave).
A collection of word oddities. Beautiful words, as collected by same. I like chalice, anemone, thrush, and lullaby.
Study on lovely words. Flawed in that meaning has too much influence, but interesting. ^_^
German words &mdash though Habseligkeiten doesn't just mean 'property', but something like 'stuff that is not necessarily viewed as precious by most people, but nonetheless held dear by the owner', like things a child collects in its pockets, the belongings one rescued when the house was destroyed, etc. It combines 'Hab(e)' = 'belongings' and 'Seligkeit' = 'blessedness.'
A poem found on the interweb (I know not the author!)
Glory be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
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