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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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Earth helped him with the cry of blood.

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For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude

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But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.

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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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Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect.

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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

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Whether we be young or old,Our destiny, our being's heart and home,Is with infinitude, and only there;With hope it is, hope that can never die,Effort and expectation, and desire,And something evermore about to be.

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Stop thinking for once in your life!

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Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

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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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Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.

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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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Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

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

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Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives.

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Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!

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Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.

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Sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.

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Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.

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