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Lilacs,
False blue,
White,
Purple,
Colour of lilac,
(Amy Lowell (1874-1925), U.S. poet. Lilacs (l. 1-5). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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These mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Gadshill, in Henry IV, Part 1, act 2, sc. 1, l. 74-5.
Beer-drinkers whose mustaches are stained with drink.)
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And deck the bananas in leaves
Plucked from the Carib trees,
Fibrous and dangling down,
Oozing cantankerous gum
Out of their purple maws....
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "Floral Decorations for Bananas.")
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The poop was beaten gold,
Purple the sails, and so perfumed that
The winds were love-sick with them.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Enobarbus, in Antony and Cleopatra, act 2, sc. 2, l. 192-4.
Describing the barge in which Antony first saw Cleopatra.)
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O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
(Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929), U.S. author. America the Beautiful (l. 1-4). . .
Favorite Poems Old and New. Helen Ferris, ed. (1957) Doubleday & Company.)
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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
(Alice Walker (b. 1944), U.S. author, critic. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, epigraph (1983).)
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"He Who is wrapped in purple robes,
With planets in His care,
Had pity on the least of things
Asleep upon a chair."
(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet. The Ballad of Father Gilligan (l. 45-48). . .
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Richard J. Finneran, ed. (1989) Macmillan.)
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Ah splendour, my goddess turns:
or was it the sudden heat,
beneath quivering of molten flesh,
of veins, purple as violets?
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Hippolytus Temporizes.")
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Long hours
trail in their purple
and long years are lost
in just this moment
while our souls are near,
our mouths separate.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Choros Sequence.")
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In this little urn is laid
Prudence Baldwin ( once my maid )
From whose happy spark here let
Spring the purple violet.
(Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet. Upon Prue, His Maid (l. 1-5). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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