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Picture that orchard sprite,
Eve, with her body white,
Supple and smooth to her
Slim finger tips,
(Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871-1962), British poet. Eve (l. 25-28). . .
Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company.)
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Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.
(Helen Keller (1880-1968), U.S. blind/deaf author, lecturer. The Story of My Life, pt. 1, ch. 22 (1903).)
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Through the port comes the moon-shine astray!
It tips the guard's cutlass and silvers this nook;
But 'twill die in the dawning of Billy's last day.
A jewel-block they'll make of me to-morrow,
Pendant pearl from the yard-arm-end
Like the ear-drop I gave to Bristol Molly—
O, 'tis me, not the sentence they'll suspend.
(Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. poet, novelist. Billy Budd, Foretopman (l. 4-10). . .
Selected Poems of Herman Melville. Hennig Cohen, ed. (1991) Fordham University Press.)
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A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces
More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne.
More commonly it wheezes and tips over.
(Marge Piercy (b. 1936), U.S. poet, novelist, and political activist. "Rough Times," lines 20-22 (1976).)
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The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm. Others there are whose hands have sunbeams in them, so that their grasp warms my heart.
(Helen Keller (1880-1968), U.S. blind/deaf author, lecturer. The Story of My Life, pt. 1, ch. 23 (1903).)
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the jeweled prize
always
at our finger tips.
We will it so
and so it is
past all accident.
(William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), U.S. poet. The Ivy Crown (l. 84-89). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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William Carlos Williams
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Ferdinand De Soto, sleeping
In the river, never heard
Four-and-twenty Spanish hooves
Fling off their iron and cut the green,
Leaving circles new and clean
While overhead the wing-tips whirred.
(Mark Van Doren (1894-1973), U.S. poet. The Distant Runners (l. 13-18). . .
Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company.)
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Romeo. Lady, by yonder blessed moon I vow,
That tips with silver all these fruit tree tops—
Juliet. O, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Romeo and Juliet, in Romeo and Juliet, act 2, sc. 2, l. 107-11.)
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