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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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For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.

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What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

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Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.

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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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Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

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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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Rest and be thankful.

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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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When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country--am I to be blamed?

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The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.

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A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

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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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Far from the world I walk, and from all care.

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Prompt to move but firm to wait - knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.

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The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow

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

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But how can he expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?

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

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On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.

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