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
edit- 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.- Homer, Odyssey, XV, as Englished by Alexander Pope
- A bracelet rich with gold, with amber gay,
That shot effulgence like the solar ray,
Eurymachus presents.- Homer, Odyssey, XVIII, as Englished by Alexander Pope
- 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.- Richard Crashaw, The Weeper (ed. 1670), st. 8