Oxymorons

One of my lifetime best friends sent these to me with a note: “Maybe there is nothing new under the sun. Oxymorons go back quite a long way.”

·                  melancholy merriment (Byron 1819)

·                  absent presence (Sidney 1591)

·                  beggarly riches (Donne 1624)

·                  brisk vacancy (Ashbery 1975)

·                  comfortable misery (Koontz 2001)

·                  darkness visible (Milton 1667)

·                  falsely true (Tennyson 1862)

·                  lascivious grace (Shakespeare 1609)

·                  liquid marble (Jonson 1601)

·                  scalding coolness (Hemingway 1940)

·                  sound of silence (Simon 1965)

·                  sweet sorrow" (Shakespeare 1595)

·                  transparent night (Whitman 1865)

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