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Katherine Philips
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“I did not live until this time / Crown'd my felicity, / When I could say without a crime, / I am not thine, but Thee.”
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“Grief sooner may distract than kill, / And the Unhappy often prove / Death is as coy a thing as Love.”
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“I did but see him and he disappeared, / I did but pluck the rosebud and it fell ...”
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“I find too there are few Friendships in the World Marriage-Proof; especially when the Person our Friend marries has not a Soul particularly capable of the Tenderness of that Endearment ... we may generally conclude the Marriage of a Friend to be the Funeral of a Friendship ...”
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“Opinion is the rate of things, / From hence our peace doth flow; / I have a better fate than kings, / Because I think it so.”
Katherine Philips, English poet
(1631 - 1664)
Full name: Katherine Fowler Philips. Known as Orinda.