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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 thought of death sits easy on the man Who has been born and dies among the mountains.

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Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

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A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.

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Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years!

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And what if thou, sweet May, hast known Mishap by worm and blight; If expectations newly blown Have perished in thy sight; If loves and joys, while up they sprung, Were caught as in a snare; Such is the lot of all the young, However bright and fair.

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And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.

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Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns.

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Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

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And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.

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Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger - to let fall a tear; And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, becoming, as might seem. The outward functions of intelligent man.

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Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that, 'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.

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Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.

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Delivered from the galling yoke of time.

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Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.

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In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness.

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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.

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A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.

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Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.

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Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.

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