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Something of old forgotten queens
Lurks in the lithe abandon of your walk, Something of old forgotten queens
Lurks in the lithe abandon of your walk,
Gwendolyn B. Bennett
resemblance | walking
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I askèd a thief to steal me a peach
He turned up his eyes... - MORE I askèd a thief to steal me a peach
He turned up his eyes
I ask'd a lithe lady to lie her down
Holy & meek she cries—

As soon as I went
An angel came.
He wink'd at the thief
And smild at the dame—

And without one word said
Had a peach from the tree
And still as a maid
Enjoy'd the lady.
William Blake
fruit | thieves and thievery | angels
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Build with lithe love. With love like lion-eyes.
With love like morningrise.... - MORE Build with lithe love. With love like lion-eyes.
With love like morningrise.
With love like black, our black—
luminously indiscreet;
complete; continuous."
Gwendolyn Brooks
craftsmanship | love
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Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see, it's like a portmanteau—there are two meanings... - MORE Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see, it's like a portmanteau—there are two meanings packed up into one word.
Lewis Carroll
words | language
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"There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare
That you hardly at first see the strength that is there;... - MORE "There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare
That you hardly at first see the strength that is there;
A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet,
So earnest, so graceful, so lithe and so fleet,
Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet;
James Russell Lowell
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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And he who dribbled couplets like a snake
Coiled to a lithe precision in the sun
Is missing. And he who dribbled couplets like a snake
Coiled to a lithe precision in the sun
Is missing.
Allen Tate
Pope, Alexander | poetry | poets | writers and writing
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he who dribbled couplets like a snake
Coiled to a lithe precision in the sun.... he who dribbled couplets like a snake
Coiled to a lithe precision in the sun....
Allen Tate
Pope, Alexander
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The wonder of light is your familiar tale,
Pert wench, down to the nineteenth century:... - MORE The wonder of light is your familiar tale,
Pert wench, down to the nineteenth century:
Mr. Rimbaud the Frenchman's apostasy
Asserts the argument that you are stale,
Flat and unprofitable, importunate but pale,
Lithe Corpse!
Allen Tate
beauty
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