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- Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose…
- For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over…
- In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet. . . .
- Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure…
- Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal…
- Earth has not anything to show more fair.
- And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore.
- I've watched you now a full half-hour; Self-poised upon that yellow flower And, little Butterfly! Indeed I know not if you sleep or feed. How…
- A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant…
- Sweetest melodies.Are those that are by distance made more sweet.
- Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings From…
- I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no…
- One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
- Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
- Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
- The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.
- Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.
- ..........books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient…
- What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness,…
- I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling…
- Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.
- Plain living and high thinking are no more.
- The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
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