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coy

«Fame like a wayward girl, will still be coy - To those who woo her with too slavish knees»
Author: John Keats (Poet) | Keywords: coy, slavish
«Implied / Subjection, but required with gentle sway / And by her yielded, by him best received; / Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, / And sweet reluctant amorous delay.»
«O woman!- In our hours of ease, uncertain, coy, and hard to please, and variable as the shade, by the light quivering aspen made; when pain and anguish wring the brow, a ministering angel thou»