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Black girl black girl
lips as curved as cherries
full as grape bunches
sweet as blackberries
(Dudley Randall (b. 1914), U.S. poet. Blackberry Sweet (l. 1-4). . .
Harper Anthology of Poetry, The. John Frederick Nims, ed. (1981) Harper & Row.)
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Poor little rich girl,
You're a bewitched girl,
Better beware!
(Noλl Coward (1899-1973), British playwright, actor, composer. "Poor Little Rich Girl" (song), On With the Dance (musical revue, 1925), published in Collected Sketches and Lyrics (1931).)
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I was always pretending that I was a poor-working-girl, always forgetting that I was really poor M also a working girl.
(Margaret Anderson (1886-1973), U.S. literary editor and autobiographer. My Thirty Years' War, ch. 1 (1930).
On her first full year in Chicago, as a working woman independent of her parents. Raised in affluence, she was now on her own, living hand-to-mouth as a book reviewer and literary editor.)
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I am just a little girl who's looking for a little boy who's looking for a girl to love.
(Ira Gershwin (1896-1983), U.S. songwriter. "Looking for a Boy," Tip-Toes, Harms, Inc. (1925).
Music composed by George Gershwin (1898-1937).)
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
(E.Y. Harburg (1898-1981), U.S. songwriter. "When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love," Finian's Rainbow (1947), Chappell & Co. (1946).
Music composed by Burton Lane (b. 1912).)
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I've lost the one girl I found.
(Howard Dietz (1896-1983), U.S. songwriter. "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan," The Little Show, Harms, Inc. (1929).
Music composed by Arthur Schwartz (1900-1984).)
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Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
(Leo Robin (b. 1900), U.S. songwriter. Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend (song), Gentleman Prefer Blondes (stage show 1949; film 1953).)
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Frankie mounted to the scaffold as calm as a girl can be,
(Unknown. Frankie and Johnny (l. 85). . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford University Press.)
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