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He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.

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Departing summer hath assumed An aspect tenderly illumed, The gentlest look of spring; That calls from yonder leafy shade Unfaded, yet prepared to fade, A timely carolling.

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What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them.

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Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

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Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!

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We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

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"One impulse from a vernal wood

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Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.

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Truth takes no account of centuries.

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Great God! I'd rather be a Pagan.

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A deep distress has humanised my soul.

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Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever.

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We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

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The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive!

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For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

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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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To the solid ground Of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye.

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

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Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.

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