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Then for the house that is no more a house,
But only a belilaced cellar hole,
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. Directive (l. 45-46). . .
The Poetry of Robert Frost. Edward Connery Lathem, ed. (1979) Henry Holt.)
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Work has to be done.
Postmen like doctors go from house to house.
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Aubade.")
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O, if you raise this house against this house
It will the woefullest division prove
That ever fell upon this cursed earth.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Bishop of Carlisle, in Richard II, act 4, sc. 1, l. 145-7.
Prophesying civil war in England.)
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A house in the country is not the same as a country house.
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author. (Written 1933), originally published Banyan Press (1948). Blood on the Dining-Room Floor, Creative Arts Book Company, ed. John Herbert Gill (1982).)
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If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
(E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. "Anonymity: An Inquiry," pt. II (1925), in Two Cheers for Democracy (1951).)
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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Beauty," The Conduct of Life (1860).)
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The house-dog lost,
the little hen escaped,
the precious hay-rick scattered,
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Erige Cor Tuum Ad Me In Caelum.")
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God bless the master of this house,
Likewise the mistress too:
(Unknown. God Bless the Master of This House (l. 1-2). . .
Our Holidays in Poetry. Mildred P. Harrington and Josephine H. Thomas, comps. (1929) The H. W. Wilson Company.)
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At the top of the house the apples are laid in rows,
(John Drinkwater (1882-1937), British poet. Moonlit Apples (l. 1). . .
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.)
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The Irishman's house is his coffin.
(James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish author. Ulysses, ch. 6, "Hades," The Corrected Text, ed. Hans Walter Gabler, Random House (1986).
Leopold Bloom comments on Ireland and death.)
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