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Mary Ashley Townsend Quotes:

Mary Ashley Townsend quotes

Ocupation: Poet

Life: September 24, 1832 - June 7, 1901

Birthday: September 24

Death: June 7

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How much do I love thee? Go ask the deep sea How many rare gems In its coral caves be; Or ask the broad billows, That ceaselessly roar, How many bright sands Do they kiss on the shore?

source: - Mary Ashley Townsend (1873). “Xariffa's Poems”, p.25

Topics: Love, Kissing, Sea, Deep Sea

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I believe if I should die, And you should kiss my eyelids where I lie Cold, dead, and dumb to all the world contains, The folded orbs would open at thy breath, And from its exile in the Isles of Death Life would come gladly back along my veins.

source: - Mary Ashley Townsend, Ralph Lee Woodward (2001). “Here and There in Mexico: The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend”, p.9, University of Alabama Press

Topics: Death, Lying, Believe, Orbs

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