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May books and nature be their early joy!

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Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.

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In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.

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The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.

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Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song.

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

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Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.

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There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream.

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Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.

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The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

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Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.

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She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.

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

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Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

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By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.

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Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

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my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion.

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One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition.

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I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

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