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Kind souls, you wonder why, love you,
When you, you wonder why, love none.
We love, Fool, for the good we do,
Not that which unto us is done!
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"I saw you take his kiss!" "'Tis true."
"O, modesty!" "'Twas strictly kept:
He thought me asleep; at least, I knew
He thought I thought he thought I slept."
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Ah, wasteful woman, she who may
On her sweet self set her own price,
Knowing man cannot choose but pay,
How has she cheapen'd paradise;
How given for nought her priceless gift,
How spoil'd the bread and spill'd the wine,
Which, spent with due, respective thrift,
Had made brutes men, and men divine.
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One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.
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The moods of love are like the wind,
And none knows whence or why they rise.
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Some dish more sharply spiced than this
Milk-soup men call domestic bliss.
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Having my law the seventh time disobey'd,
I struck him, and dismiss'd
With hard words and unkiss'd,
—His Mother, who was patient, being dead.
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For want of me the world's course will not fail;
When all its work is done the lie shall rot;
The truth is great and shall prevail
When none cares whether it prevail or not.
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Coventry Patmore
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Born:
July 23, 1823
Died:
November 26, 1896
(aged 73)
Bio:
Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore was an English poet and critic best known for The Angel in the House, his narrative poem about an ideal happy marriage.
Known for:
The Angel in the House (1851)
The Unknown Eros (1878)
The Victories of Love and other Poems (1862)
Faithful For Ever (1860)
The rod, the root, and the flower (1895)
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