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Quotes from The Angel in the House — Coventry Patmore

1823–1896 England

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How light the touches are that kiss
The music from the chords of life!

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How amiable and innocent
Her pleasure in her power to charm!

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The moods of love are like the wind,
And none know whence or why they rise.

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Grant me the power of saying things
Too simple and too sweet for words!

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Strong passions mean weak will, and he
Who truly knows the strength and bliss
Which are in love, will own with me
No passion but a virtue 'tis.

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Love wakes men, once a lifetime each;
They lift their heavy lids, and look;
And, lo, what one sweet page can teach,
They read with joy, then shut the book.

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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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The beauty in her lover's eyes
Was admiration of her own.

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I vowed unvarying faith, and she
To whom in full I pay that vow,
Rewards me with variety
Which men who change can never know.

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"The bliss which woman's charms bespeak,
"I've sought in many, found in none!"
"In many 'tis in vain you seek
"What can be found in only one."

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She is both heaven and the way.

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What seems to us for us is true.
The planet has no proper light,
And yet when Venus is in view,
No primal star is half so bright.

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Strong passions mean weak will.

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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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I drew my bride, beneath the moon,
Across my threshold; happy hour!
But, ah, the walk that afternoon
We saw the water-flags in flower!

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A woman is a foreign land.

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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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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Coventry Patmore (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.