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Some dish more sharply spiced than this
Milk-soup men call domestic bliss.

Coventry Patmore

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.

Coventry Patmore

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.

Coventry Patmore

Coventry Patmore

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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