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Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.

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I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

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Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach.

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Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

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We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.

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Love betters what is best

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Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.

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Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time.

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The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.

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She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.

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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

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Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.

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Here must thou be, O man, Strength to thyself - no helper hast thou here - Here keepest thou thy individual state: No other can divide with thee this work, No secondary hand can intervene To fashion this ability. 'Tis thine, The prime and vital principle is thine In the recesses of thy nature, far From any reach of outward fellowship, Else 'tis not thine at all.

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She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!

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That to this mountain-daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone!

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Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.

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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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We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.

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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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