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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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There beneath the Roman ruin where the purple flowers grow,
Came that "Ave atque Vale" of the poet's hopeless woe,
Tenderest of Roman poets nineteen hundred years ago,
(Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), British poet. "Frater Ave atque Vale," (l. 4-6). . .
Tennyson; a Selected Edition. Christopher Ricks, ed. (1989) University of California Press.)
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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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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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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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He is come to open
The purple testament of bleeding war.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. King Richard, in Richard II, act 3, sc. 3, l. 93-4.
On Henry Bolingbroke; blood was often described as purple.)
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