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Literary notes about Tryst (AI summary)

In literature, the term tryst is frequently employed to evoke secret, often charged meetings that carry both romantic allure and a sense of destiny. Writers use it to denote clandestine appointments—sometimes with lovers in secluded parks or private retreats [1, 2, 3], while in other contexts it suggests fateful encounters that verge on the inevitable, as in a meeting with death itself that heightens the dramatic tension [4, 5]. It also appears as a marker for prearranged rendezvous in varied settings, from the natural beauty of a golden isle set for union [6, 7] to formal, historical gatherings [8, 9]. Through these varied uses, tryst encapsulates the intensity of human connection and the transient moments that define both passion and destiny [10, 11].
  1. This thought caused me to revert to that hour when I had sat upon the seat in the Park, keeping a tryst with some person unknown.
    — from The Wiles of the Wicked by William Le Queux
  2. To tryst Love blindfold goes, for fear He should not see, and eyeless night He chooses still for breathing near Beauty, that lives but in the sight.
    — from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore
  3. But I came not here to keep a lover's tryst.
    — from EventideA Series of Tales and Poems by Effie Afton
  4. *** Bravely he kept his tryst with Death - Who somehow knew it would come to pass -
    — from Tasting the Earth by Mona Gould
  5. It is blindness for any one making a tryst to set aside the tryst with Death: The tryst that we made at Claragh has been kept by me in pale death.
    — from Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry
  6. The great river, bright in the sunshine, set the isle in a circlet of gold As it swept to its tryst with the ocean, through realms of riches untold.
    — from The Snowflake, and Other Poems by Arthur Weir
  7. A flock of brilliant butterflies dipped and poised on the waters,—pleasure boats bound for the tryst.
    — from The Hill of Venus by Nathan Gallizier
  8. The Master of Forbes, in the north, slew the Laird of Meldrum, under tryst' (that is, at an agreed and secure meeting).
    — from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott
  9. Tonight I am sure it is keeping a tryst with the past.
    — from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. Montgomery
  10. CHAPTER XIV THE LAST TRYST he great clock on the tower of San Sebastian struck the second hour of night.
    — from The Sorceress of Rome by Nathan Gallizier
  11. The shepherd’s hour: the hour of folding: hour of tryst.
    — from Ulysses by James Joyce

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