“A sweeter woman ne'er drew breath
Than my sonne's wife, Elizabeth.”
Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) British writer
"The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Stronger than iron
crueler than death
sweeter than springtime
it lives beyond breath”
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crueler than death
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it lives beyond breath" by Juliet Marillier?
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New Zealand fiction writer 1948Related quotes
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