Fate waiting in the wings
All aglow, this bright afternoon when two characters cross paths, blush, and entwine fates. Impossible to have any intimation on...
Fate goes as ever fate must
This translation by Seamus Heaney rings like a proverb on the immutability of fate. Elsewhere, he brings it up close and...
Violet-scented breath
Nowadays it would be 'mint-scented'.
This sinister image, in which fate beguiles with the beauty of an afternoon, is a...
Fortune’s favour
This reminds me of an anonymous Elizabethan verse which I cite from memory:
'Lift up thy heart and courage...
A wyrd fate
'Wyrd' originally referred to fate or personal destiny, and relates to the modern word ‘weird’. As a Middle English adjective it...
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