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Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: So this winged hour is dropt to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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   Who, of men, can tell That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell To melting pulp, that fish would have bright mail, The earth its dower of river, wood, and vale, The meadows runnels, runnels pebble-stones, The seed its harvest, or the lute its tones, Tones ravishment, or ravishment its sweet, If human souls did never kiss and greet?

john keats

— 1818  Endymion, bk.1, l.835-42.

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Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

william wordsworth

— 1820  The River Duddon, no.34,'After-Thought', l.10-14.

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All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower.


— Robert Browning, Home Thoughts. From Abroad.

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It being a maxim that three things are always favoured in law, life, liberty and dower.


— Per. Cur., Dumsday v. Hughes (1803), 3 Bos. and Pull. 456

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Bird of the amber beak, Bird of the golden wing! Thy dower is thy carolling; Thou hast not far to seek Thy bread, nor needest wine To make thy utterance divine; Thou art canopied and clothed And unto Song betrothed.

edmund clarence stedman

— Edmund Clarence Stedman, The Songster, Stanza 2; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 89.

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For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower; Radiance and odour are not its dower; It loves, even like Love, its deep heart is full, It desires what it has not, the beautiful.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

— Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Sensitive Plant (1820), Part I.

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Lear: So young, and so untender? Cordelia: So young, my lord, and true. Lear: Let it be so; thy truth, then, be thy dower.


— Scene I

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