Amber

fossilized tree resin

Amber is fossilised tree resin. Examples have been appreciated for their colour and natural beauty since Neolithic times, and worked as a gemstone since antiquity. Amber is used in jewellery and as a healing agent in folk medicine.

Quotes

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  • An artist to my father’s palace came,
    With gold and amber chains, elaborate frame:
    Each female eye the glittering links employ;
    They turn, review, and cheapen every toy.
  • A bracelet rich with gold, with amber gay,
    That shot effulgence like the solar ray,
    Eurymachus presents.
  • Not the soft gold which
    Steals from the amber-weeping tree,
    Makes sorrow half so rich,
    As the drops distill’d from thee.
    Sorrow’s best jewels lie in these
    Caskets of which Heaven keeps the keys.
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