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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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Truth takes no account of centuries.

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Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.

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But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant

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The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!

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By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same!

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

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Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.

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The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.

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In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet. . . .

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Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.

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In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.

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Truths that wake To perish never

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A Briton even in love should be A subject, not a slave!

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With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.

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

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And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains,-alas! too few.

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In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration: - feelings, too, Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

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Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

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Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows go!

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