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O, she walked unaware of her own increasing beauty
That was holding men's thoughts from market or plough

— Patrick MacDonogh She Walked Unaware (1975)

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God pity me now and all desolate sinners
Demented with beauty!

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To-night she will spread her brown hair on his pillow,
But I shall be hearing the harsh cries of wild fowl.

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True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

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The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

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Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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