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The blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are brighter and fuller of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their odor is deadly.
The blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are brighter and fuller of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their odor is deadly.
Approximate author period: c. 1844 AD · industrial
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- Author or tradition
- Henry W. Longfellow
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- Approximate author period: c. 1844 AD · industrial
author lifetime midpoint (1807–1882)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 193 · printed citation: Longfellow · subject: Passions
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