He lowered his voice. "You are a true shield-maiden; you do not turn from a scar on a man's face." I looked at him and did not lower my eyes. "My father was an ealdorman, and his brother ealdorman after him. He taught me that a scar is the badge of honour of the warrior, and this I believe." He regarded me for a long moment. "I think I am glad we did not face your father and his brother in battle, " he said, "for they were of better stuff than what we have found here." In saying this, he gave my dead kinsmen much praise. I felt that praise came rarely from the Danes, and took a strange pleasure in hearing him say this. I did not speak, but he lifted his cup to me, and I again took up mine. - Sidroc the Dane to Ceridwen . Octavia Randolph
Let me feel how thy pulses beat.
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Thomas Middleton
Jesus Christ! ” A man could only take so much. She yelped as he snatched her up around the waist and sat her on the counter. “Sit there and don’t move. Don’t bat your eyes. Don’t lick your lips. Don’t get on your knees. And...
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Alannah Lynne
I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.
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Pablo Neruda
Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze.
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William Carlos Williams
O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one.
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William Ernest Henley
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