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«Underneath an apple-treeSat a maiden and her lover;And the thoughts within her heYearned, in silence, to discover.Round them danced the sunbeams bright,Green the grass-lawn stretched before themWhile the apple blossoms whiteHung in rich profusion o'er them.»
Author: Will Carleton | Keywords: apple, apple tree, blossoms, danced, Green Grass, hung, lawn, maiden, profusion, Sat, stretched, sunbeams, The Apple, underneath, yearned
«So a maiden, while she remains untouched, remains dear to her own; but when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls»
Author: Catullus | Keywords: chaste, maiden, sullied, sullying, untouched
«There's not a modest maiden elf / But dreads the final Trumpet, / Lest half of her should rise herself, / And half some sturdy strumpet!»
Author: Thomas Hardy (Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: dreads, ELF, maiden, modest, strumpet
«Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Chaldees, maiden, stooped, The King Of
«Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king: / And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them: / And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: appoint, chamberlain, chamberlains, custody, keeper, maiden, ministered, officers, provinces, Provinces of, Shushan, The Palace, virgins
«The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: acceptance, accepted, betroth, betrothed, charms, maiden, pursued, stooped, stooping, stoops, such as, The Betrothed, wildest
«She is said to be the hand-maiden of her Beloved Lord; His sweetheart surrenders to His Name.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib | Keywords: maiden, surrenders
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