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Ogden Nash: A bit of...

Ogden Nash: A bit of...

A bit of talcum
Is always walcum.


Source: The Baby
-- Ogden Nash, (Aug 19...

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William Wordsworth: I wandered lonely...

William Wordsworth: I wandered lonely...

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A...

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William Wordsworth: Poetry is the...

William Wordsworth: Poetry is the...

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in...

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William Wordsworth: There neither is,...

William Wordsworth: There neither is,...

There neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical...

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William Wordsworth: When a damp<br>Fell...

William Wordsworth: When a damp
Fell...

When a damp
Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand
The thing became a trumpet; whence he...

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William Wordsworth: The silence that...

William Wordsworth: The silence that...

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


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William Wordsworth: Visionary power<br>Attends the...

William Wordsworth: Visionary power
Attends the...

Visionary power
Attends the motions of the viewless winds,
Embodied in the mystery of...

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William Wordsworth: The grim shape<br>Towered...

William Wordsworth: The grim shape
Towered...

The grim shape
Towered up between me and the stars, and still,
For so it seemed, with purpose of its own
And...

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William Wordsworth: Pleasures newly found...

William Wordsworth: Pleasures newly found...

Pleasures newly found are sweet
When they lie about our feet.


Source: To the...

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Emily Dickinson: Will you tell...

Emily Dickinson: Will you tell...

Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to...

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Emily Dickinson: Of Consciousness, her...

Emily Dickinson: Of Consciousness, her...

Of Consciousness, her awful Mate
The Soul cannot be rid --
As easy the secreting her
Behind the Eyes of...

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Emily Dickinson: If I can...

Emily Dickinson: If I can...

If I can stop one Heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching
Or cool one...

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Emily Dickinson: Till it has...

Emily Dickinson: Till it has...

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.

Source: Letter, 187?; in...

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Emily Dickinson: We never know...

Emily Dickinson: We never know...

We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise.
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures...

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Emily Dickinson: This is the...

Emily Dickinson: This is the...

This is the Hour of Lead --
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow --
First --Chill...

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Emily Dickinson: To multiply the...

Emily Dickinson: To multiply the...

To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.

Source: Letter, 1879; in Letters...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Do we indeed...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Do we indeed...

Do we indeed desire the dead
Should still be near us at our side?
Is there no baseness we would hide?
No...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For it was...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For it was...

For it was in the golden prime
Of good Haroun Alraschid.


Source: Recollections...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For what are...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For what are...

For what are men better than sheep or goats
That nourish a blind life within the brain,
If, knowing God, they...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O that 'twere...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O that 'twere...

O that 'twere possible
After long grief and pain
To find the arms of my true love
Round me once...

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