Motif
Beauty paired with pain (sweetness with sting)
beauty_paired_with_pain_sweetness_with_sting
A motif of the Beauty Paired with Pain and Paradox family, within the sub-family Pleasure, Sweetness, and Hidden Stings. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
persian
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Persian Literature, Volume 1 LXXXVI / LXXXVII / LXXXVIII / CXXIX; lines 16463-16489 confidence: high
The speaker says he no longer grieves at harshness, since a rose is not without thorns and honey is not without sting.
The speaker states that roses come with thorns and honey with sting, as an analogy for love’s hardship.
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