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For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes
The...
The gods approve
The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.
Source: Laodamia,...
The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.
Source: Miscellaneous Sonnets, I. 14, `To...
Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the...
Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned,
Mindless of its just honours; with this key
Shakespeare unlocked...
All the mighty world
Of eye, and ear,- both what they half create,
And what...
He spake of love, such love as spirits feel
In worlds whose course is equable and pure;
No fears to beat away -...
Where lies the land to which yon ship must go?
Source: Miscellaneous Sonnets, I....
O'er rough and smooth she trips along,
And never looks behind;
And sings a solitary song
That whistles in the...
Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant
Of such weak fibre that the treacherous air
Of absence withers what was...
More like a man
Flying from something that he dreads than one
Who sought the thing he...
I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far...
Great God! I'd rather be
A pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have...
There neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical...
Another year! - another deadly blow!
Another mighty empire overthrown!
And we are left, or shall be left,...
For Nature then . . .
To me was all in all.
Source: Lines composed a few miles...
We are laid asleep
In body, and become a living soul:
While with an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony,...
With gentle hand
Touch - for there is a spirit in the woods.
Source:...
The cottage which was named the Evening Star
Is gone.
Source: Michael, 476
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We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton...