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““grammar in learning is like tyranny in government - confound the bitch I'll never be her slave.””

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I ne'er was struck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet. Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower and stole…

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Ah, words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away...

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“ I Am! I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer…

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“I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator, God,…

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I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down

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This world has suns, but they are overcast;This world has sweets, but they're of ling'ring bloom;Life still expects, and empty falls at last;Warm Hope…

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Forgive me if, in friendship’s way, I offer thee a wreath of May.... [N]ourished by the dews of heaven.... So I have Ivy placed…

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Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint: Things least to be believed are most preferred. All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,…

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I'm John Clare now. I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.

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To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our…

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“Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude And fled to the silence of sweet solitude.”

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The snow has left the cottage top; The thatch moss grows in brighter green; And eaves in quick succession drop, Where grinning icicles have…

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