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Banks that slope to the southern sky
Where languid violets love to lie.

— Sarah Helen Whitman Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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The sweet imperious mouth, whose haughty valor
Defied all portents of impending doom.

Poems (1879)

Enchantress of the stormy seas,
Priestess of Night's high mysteries!

Poems (1879)

When summer gathers up her robes of glory,
And, like a dream of beauty, glides away.

Poems (1879)

The shy little may-flower weaves her nest;
But the south wind blows o'er the fragrant loam,
And betrays the path to her woodland home.

Poems (1879)

Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow,
Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground,
With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow,
The gentian nods, in dewy slumbers bound.

Poems (1879)

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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