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There is no fool like an old fool; There is no I in team; There's no need to wear a hair shirt; There is no place like home; There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. There is no smoke without fire/Where there is smoke, there is fire; There is no such thing as a free lunch; There is no such thing as bad publicity
The ending couplet provides, according to Moore, an interesting twist when "deception and love making become one: to lie is to lie with" [39] However, Vendler has a slightly different take on the poem as a whole in response to the final volta. She notes that the pronouns "I" and "she" share a mutual verb, becoming "we" with "our" shared faults.
Anecdote for Fathers" (full title: "Anecdote for Fathers, Shewing how the practice of Lying may be taught" ) is a poem by William Wordsworth first published in his 1798 collection titled Lyrical Ballads, which was co-authored by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Former title: Bore the title of "Ancedote for Fathers, showing how the practise of lying may be taught" from 1798–1804 "I Have a boy of five years old;" Poems referring to the Period of Childhood: 1798 The Thorn 1798, 19 March "'There is a Thorn--it looks so old," Poems of the Imagination: 1798 Goody Blake and Harry Gill 1798 A True Story
The original manuscript of the poem, BL Harley MS 2253 f.63 v "Alysoun" or "Alison", also known as "Bytuene Mersh ant Averil", is a late-13th or early-14th century poem in Middle English dealing with the themes of love and springtime through images familiar from other medieval poems.
The Durham Proverbs is a collection of 46 medieval proverbs from various sources. They were written down as a collection, in the eleventh century, on some pages (pages 43 verso to 45 verso, between a hymnal and a collection of canticles) of a manuscript that were originally left blank.
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"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is a metaphysical poem by John Donne. Written in 1611 or 1612 for his wife Anne before he left on a trip to Continental Europe, "A Valediction" is a 36-line love poem that was first published in the 1633 collection Songs and Sonnets, two years after Donne's death.