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• The Sonnets CXXXIX - O! call not me to justify the wrong
  By William Shakespeare

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  Excerpt: O! call not me to justify the wrong That thy unkindness lays upon my heart; Wound me not with thine eye, but with thy tongue: Use power with power, ...
• Sonnets From The Portuguese VIII
  By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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  Excerpt: What can I give thee back, O liberal And princely giver, who hast brought the gold And purple of thine heart, unstained, untold, And laid them on ...
• Because He loves Her
  By Emily Dickinson

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  Excerpt: Because He loves Her We will pry and see if she is fair What difference is on her Face From Features others wear. It will not harm her magic pace ...
• Indifference
  By Matthew Arnold

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  Excerpt: I must not say that thou wert true, Yet let me say that thou wert fair. And they that lovely face who view, They will not ask if truth be there. ...
• Long I Thought That Knowledge
  By Walt Whitman

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  Excerpt: Long I thought that knowledge alone would suffice me - O if I could but obtain knowledge! Then my lands engrossed me - Lands of the prairies, Ohio's ...