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Her green mind made the world around her green.
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "Description without Place.")
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Annihilating all that's made
To a green thought in a green shade.
(Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), British metaphysical poet. The Garden, st. 6 (written c. 1650, published 1681).)
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I'll dance above your green, green grave
Where you do lie beneath."
(Unknown. The Brown Girl (l. 59-60). . .
Oxford Book of English Traditional Verse, The. Frederick Woods, ed. (1983) Oxford University Press.)
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Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph—green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
(Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), British critic. "The Journal of Cyril Connolly 1928-1937," published in David Pryce-Jones, Journal and Memoir (1983).
Pryce-Jones chose these words for his book's epigraph.)
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I got daisies
In green pastures.
(Ira Gershwin (1896-1983), U.S. songwriter. "I Got Rhythm," Girl Crazy, New World Music Corp. (1930).
Music composed by George Gershwin (1898-1937).)
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In spring, when woods are getting green,
I'll try and tell you what I mean:
(Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1898), British poet. Through the Looking-Glass. . ;
pseud. of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford University Press.)
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Still green with bays each ancient altar stands
Above the reach of sacrilegious hands,
(Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British poet. Essay on Criticism (Fr. I). . .
Poetical Works [Alexander Pope]. Herbert Davis, ed. (1978; repr. 1990) Oxford University Press.)
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Nature's first green is gold,
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. Nothing Gold Can Stay (l. 1). . .
The Poetry of Robert Frost. Edward Connery Lathem, ed. (1979) Henry Holt.)
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All dripping in tangles green,
Cast up by a lonely sea,
(Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. poet, novelist. The Tuft of Kelp (l. 1-2). . .
Selected Poems of Herman Melville. Hennig Cohen, ed. (1991) Fordham University Press.)
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All in green went my love riding
(E.E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894-1962), U.S. poet. All in green went my love riding (l. 1). . .
Complete Poems, 1904-1962 [E. E. Cummings]. George J. Firmage, ed. (1991) Liveright.)
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