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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;<br />

O Death in Life, the days that are no more.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Princess’ (1847) pt. 4, l. 31, song (added 1850)<br />

O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South,<br />

Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves,<br />

And tell her, tell her, what I tell to thee.<br />

O tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each,<br />

That bright and fierce and fickle is the South,<br />

And dark and true and tender is the North.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Princess’ (1847) pt. 4, l. 75, song (added 1850)<br />

O tell her, Swallow, that thy brood is flown:<br />

Say to her, I do but wanton in the South,<br />

But in the North long since my nest is made.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Princess’ (1847) pt. 4, l. 90, song (added 1850)<br />

Man is the hunter; woman is his game:<br />

<strong>The</strong> sleek and shining creatures <strong>of</strong> the chase,<br />

We hunt them for the beauty <strong>of</strong> their skins;<br />

<strong>The</strong>y love us for it, and we ride them down.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Princess’ (1847) pt. 5, l. 147<br />

Home they brought her warrior dead.<br />

She nor swooned, nor uttered cry:<br />

All her maidens, watching said,<br />

‘She must weep or she will die.’<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Princess’ (1847) pt. 6, song (added 1850)<br />

Rose a nurse <strong>of</strong> ninety years,<br />

Set his child upon her knee—<br />

Like summer tempest came her tears—<br />

‘Sweet my child, I live for thee.’<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Princess’ (1847) pt. 6, song (added 1850)<br />

<strong>The</strong> woman is so hard<br />

Upon the woman.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Princess’ (1847) pt. 6, l. 205<br />

Ask me no more: what answer should I give?<br />

I love not hollow cheek or faded eye:<br />

Yet, O my friend, I will not have thee die!<br />

Ask me no more, lest I should bid thee live.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Princess’ (1847) pt. 7, song (added 1850)<br />

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;<br />

Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;<br />

Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:

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