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There's a woman like a dewdrop, she's so purer than the purest.
Bells and Pomegranates No. V: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon (1843)
Womanliness means only motherhood;
All love begins and ends there.
The Inn Album (1875)
Go practise if you please
With men and women: leave a child alone
For Christ's particular love's sake!
The Ring and the Book (1868)
He gazed and gazed and gazed and gazed,
Amazed, amazed, amazed, amazed.
Dear dead women, with such hair, too—what’s become of all the gold
Used to hang and brush their bosoms? I feel chilly and grown old.
A Toccata of Galuppi's (1855)
O woman-country! wooed not wed,
Loved all the more by earth's male-lands,
Laid to their hearts instead.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
... the mark
God sets on woman, signifying so
She should—shall peradventure—be divine.
The woman yonder, there's no use of life
But just to obtain her! heap earth's woes in one
And bear them—make a pile of all earth's joys
And spurn them, as they help or help not this;
Only, obtain her!