Amber

thumb| 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 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 whichSteals from the amber-weeping tree,Makes sorrow half so rich,As the drops distill’d from thee.Sorrow’s best jewels lie in theseCaskets of which Heaven keeps the keys. Richard Crashaw, The Weeper (ed. 1670), st. 8 External links Category:Geology