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7 Edward Moore Quotes

Edward Moore's verses feel poetic and wistful, inviting readers who love youthful imagination and quiet beauty.

Edward Moore quotes

  1. I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

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  2. 'T is now the summer of your youth. Time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

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  3. Can't I another's face commend, And to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead lowers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?

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  4. The maid who modestly conceals Her beauties, while she hides, reveals; Give but a glimpse, and fancy draws Whate'er the Grecian Venus was.

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  5. But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.

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  6. Time still, as he flies, brings increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

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  7. Labour for his pains.

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