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I am dying, Egypt, dying.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Antony, in Antony and Cleopatra, act 4, sc. 15, l. 18 and 41.
Antony's only reference to Cleopatra's title as Queen of Egypt.)
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I preached as never sure to preach again,
And as a dying man to dying men.
(Richard Baxter (1615-1691), British nonconformist cleric. Love Breathing Thanks and Praise, Poetical Fragments (1681).)
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An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,
(Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), British poet. England in 1819 (l. 1). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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Only death rescues us from dying.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Tenth Selection, New York (1992).)
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I've seen a Dying Eye
(Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. I've seen a Dying Eye (l. 1). . .
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown.)
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It was not dying: everybody died.
(Randall Jarrell (1914-1965), U.S. poet, critic. Losses (l. 1). . .
The Complete Poems [Randall Jarrell]. (1969; repr. 1989) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.)
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Dying people often become childish.
(Georg Büchner (1813-1837), German dramatist, revolutionary. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1995). Danton's Death, act II (1835).)
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For years, they have all been dying
Out, the classic buck-and-wing men
(James Dickey (b. 1923), U.S. poet. Buckdancer's Choice (l. 8-9).
CP-Dick. The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 [James Dickey]. (1992) Wesleyan University Press.)
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The dreamcrossed twilight between birth and dying.
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American poet, critic. "Ash-Wednesday," pt. 6 (1930).)
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Authority forgets a dying king.
(Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), British poet. Idylls of the King, l. 289, "The Passing of Arthur," (1859-1885).)
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