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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

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Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story: There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine.

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Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow!

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The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.

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True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved.

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That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

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How is it that you live, and what is it you do?

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Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.

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I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.

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the Mind of Man-- My haunt, and the main region of my song.

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And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore.

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Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.

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Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.

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Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

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'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.

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Faith is a passionate intuition.

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The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.

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A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

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Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all

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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

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