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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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He wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
(Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), British author, poet. "The Finest Story in the World," Many Inventions (1893).)
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Feed him with apricots and dewberries,
With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Titania, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 3, sc. 1, l. 166-7.
Infatuated with Bottom, she tells her fairies to indulge him.)
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
(Alice Walker (b. 1944), U.S. author, critic. Shug, in The Color Purple (1983).)
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He with cowslips pale,
Primrose, and purple lychnis, decked the green
Before my threshold, and my shelving walls
With honeysuckle covered.
(Mark Akenside (1721-70), British poet, physician. Inscription for a Grotto (l. 5-8). . .
Seven Centuries of Poetry; Chaucer to Dylan Thomas. A. N. Jeffares, ed. (1955) Longmans, Green & Company.)
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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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Night is a curious child, wandering
Between earth and sky, creeping
In windows and doors, daubing
The entire neighborhood
With purple paint.
(Frank Marshall Davis (b. 1905), U.S. poet. Four Glimpses of Night (l. 1-5).
NoP. Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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