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“I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.”

Giving Soul Mouths South Glasses Hypocrisy Pockets South Africa Soap Pirate Pious Meanness Towels Christendom

Book:Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers

Source: Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers

“Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth! On for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth.”

Song Mouths South Warm Bubbles Purple Mirth Winking

Author:John Keats

“Low gurgling laughter, as sweet As the swallow's song i' the South, And a ripple of dimples that, dancing, meet By the curves of a perfect mouth.”

Song Perfect Sweet Lows Laughter Mouths Dancing South Curves Ripple Dimples

Book:Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne

Source: Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne

“And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.”

War Greater Four Mouths All Things Horse South Puff

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“What troops Of generous boys in happiness thus bred Saturnians through life's Tempe led, Went from the North and came from the South, With golden mottoes in the mouth, To lie down midway on a bloody bed.”

Lying Boys Bed Mouths South Golden Generous Troops Bloody Midway

Book:The Poems of Herman Melville

Source: The Poems of Herman Melville

“A drawing, brought by Colonel Coombs, from a sculptured column in a cave-temple in the South of India, represents the first pair at the foot of the ambrosial tree, and a serpent entwined among the heavily-laden boughs, presenting to them some of the fruit from his mouth.”

Firsts Tree Feet Atheism Mouths India South Fruit Positive Atheism Drawing Temples Pairs Caves Columns Presenting Serpent Colonels Entwined

Author:Godfrey Higgins

“I love a lot of things, a whole lot of things / Like / My cousin comes to visit and you know he's from the South /'Cause every word he says just kind of slides out of his mouth / I like the way he whistles and I like the way he walks / But honey, let me tell you that I love the way he talks.”

Knows Way Kind Whole Causes Walks Talking Mouths Let Me South Honey Cousin Slides My Cousin

Author:Eloise Greenfield

“some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.”

Soul Eye Song Sound Blood Genius Mouths Hot South Folks Folk Songs

Book:The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer

Source: The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer

“We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars, watching Cassiopeia mount her throne and the Great Bear wash its paws in the South. I would say, "I have a secret to tell you." And, folding me in your arms, boyish and sly, you would answer: "Whisper it into my mouth.”

Lying Stars Answers Secret Arms Bears Mouths South Sand Thrones Paws Sly Folding Boyish

Book:Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems

Source: Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems

“Every night in my dreams, a man appeared from the darkest recesses of my mind, as if he'd been waiting for me to fall asleep. His mouth, full, masculine, would sear my flesh. His tongue, like flames across my skin, would send tiny sparks quaking through my body. Then he would dip south, and the heavens would open and a chorus singing hallelujah would ring out in perfect harmony.”

Source: First Grave on the Right