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William Wordsworth: Milton! thou shouldst...

William Wordsworth: Milton! thou shouldst...

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee; she is a fen
Of stagnant waters: altar,...

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William Wordsworth: The brook and...

William Wordsworth: The brook and...

The brook and road
Were fellow-travellers in this gloomy strait.


Source: The...

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William Wordsworth: There is<br>One great...

William Wordsworth: There is
One great...

There is
One great society alone on earth:
The noble living and the noble dead.


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William Wordsworth: Still longed for,...

William Wordsworth: Still longed for,...

Still longed for, never seen.

Source: To the Cuckoo
-- William Wordsworth, (Apr...

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William Wordsworth: Fair seed-time had...

William Wordsworth: Fair seed-time had...

Fair seed-time had my soul, and I grew up
Fostered alike by beauty and by fear.


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George Gordon Byron: To withdraw myself...

George Gordon Byron: To withdraw myself...

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at...

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Emily Dickinson: For each ecstatic...

Emily Dickinson: For each ecstatic...

For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the...

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Emily Dickinson: I like a...

Emily Dickinson: I like a...

I like a look of Agony,
Because I know it's true --
Men do not sham Convulsion,
Nor simulate, a Throe...

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Emily Dickinson: No Life can...

Emily Dickinson: No Life can...

No Life can pompless pass away --
The lowliest career
To the same Pageant wends its way
As that exalted here...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ask me no...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ask me no...

Ask me no more: thy fate and mine are sealed:
I strove against the stream and all in vain:
Let the great river...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Great in council...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Great in council...

Great in council and great in war,
Foremost captain of his time.


Source: Ode on...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: He makes no...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: He makes no...

He makes no friend who never made a foe.

Source: Idylls of the King, 'Lancelot and...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O Swallow, Swallow,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O Swallow, Swallow,...

O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South,
Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves,
And tell her, tell her,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: She has heard...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: She has heard...

She has heard a whisper say,
A curse is on her if she stay
To look down to Camelot.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O plump head-waiter...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O plump head-waiter...

O plump head-waiter at The Cock,
To which I most resort
How goes the time? 'Tis five o'clock.
Go fetch a pint...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The rose was...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The rose was...

The rose was awake all night for your sake,
Knowing your promise to me;
The lilies and roses were all...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: They praised him...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: They praised him...

They praised him to his face
with their courtly foreign grace.


Source: The...

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William Wordsworth: But an old...

William Wordsworth: But an old...

But an old age serene and bright,
And lovely as a Lapland night,
Shall lead thee to thy...

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William Wordsworth: This city now...

William Wordsworth: This city now...

This city now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres...

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Alexander Pope: In quibbles angel...

Alexander Pope: In quibbles angel...

In quibbles angel and archangel join,
And God the Father turns a school divine.


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