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- Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards…
- How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although I do not…
- They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.
- I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt every morning and…
- No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope…
- I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over…
- So let me be thy choir, and make a moan Upon the midnight hours.
- I stood tip-toe upon a little hill, The air was cooling, and so very still, That the sweet buds which with a modest pride Pull…
- I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet.
- But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.
- Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek; Then off…
- The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
- I scarcely remember counting upon happiness—I look not for it if it be not in the present hour—nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting…
- Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's…
- Should Disappointment, parent of Despair, Strive for her son to seize my careless heart; When, like a cloud, he sits upon the air, Preparing on…
- To Hope "When by my solitary hearth I sit, And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom; When no fair dreams before my 'mind's eye'…
- For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.
- My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.... I never felt my…
- ... the open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown - the Air is our robe of state - the Earth is our…
- When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their…
- When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like…
- ...I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become more acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed…
- Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a muse'…
- I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as…
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