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A Barren "Idealty."
George W Doneghy
But dreams, as you know,
By contraries go,
And thus I fear if it will be
With the one of delight
That came last night
When I feasted...
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A Friendship Established
Joanna Yeoh
Reconciliation of contraries, acceptance of differences
True friendship finally formed, gender matters not
Peace reigns...
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Genesis
Algernon Charles Swinburne
The divine contraries of life...
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Holy Sonnet XIX: Oh, To Vex Me, Contraries Meet In One
John Donne
Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one:
Inconstancy unnaturally hath begot...
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Holy Sonnet XIX: Oh, To Vex Me, Contraries Meet In One
John Donne
Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one:
Inconstancy unnaturally hath begot...
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Initial Love
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Substance mixed of pure contraries,
His vice some elder virtue's token,
And his good is evil...
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Sonnet XX: What It Is to Breathe
Samuel Daniel
This cruel knowledge of these contraries,
Delia, my heart hath learn'd out of those...
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Sonnets LVI:LVII: LVIII: True Woman
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
And it shall turn, by instant contraries,
Ice to the moon; while her pure fire to his
For whom it burns, clings close i' the heart's...
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The Author.
Charles Churchill
To make most glaring contraries unite,
And prove beyond dispute that black is white;
To make firm Honour tamely league with...
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
William Blake
6

HEAVEN AND HELL

Without contraries is no progres-
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