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A female mind like a rude fallow lies;
No seed is sown, but weeds spontaneous rise.
As well might we expect, in winter, spring,
As land untilled a fruitful crop should bring.
Anne Ingram, Viscountess Irvine
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Even the simplest poem
May destroy your immunity to human emotions.
All poems must carry a Government warning. Words
Can seriously affect your heart.
Elma Mitchell
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I've wandered east, I've wandered west,
Through mony a weary way;
But never, never can forget
The love o' life's young day!
William Motherwell
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And o'er them the lighthouse looked lovely as hope,—
That star of life's tremulous ocean.
Paul Moon James
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And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light
And a striving evermore for these;
And he is dead, who will not fight;
And who dies fighting has increase.
Julian Grenfell
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Forget. Memory is pain trying to resurrect itself.
Fred D'Aguiar
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It takes more than a short holiday to get a real love of Nature; such a love as makes trees like human companions, and green the colour we look for everywhere we go.
W. H. Davies
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Should we miss but a tree where we used to be playing,
Or find the wood cut where we sauntered a-Maying,—
If the yew-seat's away, or the ivy's a-wanting,
We hate the fine lawn and the new-fashioned planting.
Each thing called improvement seems blackened with crimes,
If it tears up one record of blissful old times.
Susanna Blamire
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I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
Jenny Joseph
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There are some secrets which scarcely admit of being disclosed even to ourselves.
Jane West
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And therewith kest I doun myn eye ageyne,
Quhare as I sawe, walking under the tour,
Full secretly new cummyn hir to pleyne,
The fairest or the freschest yonge floure
That ever I sawe, me thoght, before that houre,
For quhich sodayn abate anon astert
The blude of all my body to my hert.
James I of Scotland
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Oh, the gallant fisher's life,
It is the best of any
'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife,
And 'tis beloved of many.
John Chalkhill
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Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.
Anna Seward
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A slow psalm of two nations
Mourning a common pain
—Hebrew and Arabic mingling
Their silver-rooted vine;
Olives and roses falling
To sweeten Palestine.
Carol Rumens
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It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.
Eliza Acton
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Then we shall rise
And view ourselves with clearer eyes
In that calm region where no night
Can hide us from each other's sight.
Henry King
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Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.
Nahum Tate
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I know I could enchain him with a smile:
And lead him captive with a gentle word,
I scorn my look should ever man beguile,
Or other speech, than meaning to afford.
Elizabeth Tanfield Cary
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LUCIFER: Only the chemistry of love can make Two atoms one.
Alfred Austin
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American diplomacy. It's like watching somebody trying to do joinery with a chainsaw.
James Hamilton-Paterson
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For years a secret shame destroyed my peace—
I'd not read Eliot, Auden or MacNeice.
But then I had a thought that brought me hope—
Neither had Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope.
Justin Richardson (poet)
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The children eat and wriggle and laugh,
The two old ladies stroke their silk;
But the cat is grown small and thin with desire,
Transformed to a creeping lust for milk.
Harold Monro
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A prowde hert in a beggers brest,
A fowle visage with gay temples of atyre,
Horrible othes with an holy prist,
A justice of juges to selle and lete to hyre,
A knave to comande and have an empire,
To yeve a jugement of that never was wrought,
To preche of pees and sette eche man on fyre,
It may wele ryme but it accordith nought.
John Lydgate
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Who owns this landscape?
The millionaire who bought it or
the poacher staggering downhill in the early morning
with a deer on his back?
Norman McCaig
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What men have done can still be done
And shall be done today.
George Barlow
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