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Ten thousand saw I at a glance
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
Source: I...
Nor less I deem that there are powers
Which of themselves our minds impress;
That we can feed this mind of...
The sweetest thing that ever grew
Beside a human door!
Source: Lucy Gray.
--...
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
Source: In
I have submitted to a new control:
A power is gone, which nothing can restore;
A deep distress hath humanised my...
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In...
The darkest pit
Of the profoundest hell, chaos, night,
Nor aught of blinder vacancy scooped out
By help of...
Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance...
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of...
The thought of our past years in me doth breed
Perpetual benedictions.
Source:...
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Shades of the prison-house begin to close
Upon the growing...
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
Source: In The Golfer's Book...
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he...
I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can...
What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring...
More pellucid streams,
An ampler ether, a diviner air,
And fields invested with purpureal...
The mightiest lever known to the moral world, Imagination.
Source: In Webster's...
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in...
Hearing often-times
The still, sad music of humanity,
Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten...
The holy time is quiet as a nun
Breathless with adoration.
Source: Miscellaneous...