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The sounding cataract
Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock,
The mountain, and the deep and gloomy...
I heard a thousand blended notes
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant...
The rainbow comes and goes,
And lovely is the rose,
The moon doth with delight
Look round her when the...
There is a comfort in the strength of love;
'Twill make a thing endurable, which else
Would overset the brain,...
Thou hast great allies;
Thy friends are exultations, agonies,
And love, and man's unconquerable...
I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth: but hearing oftentimes
The still,...
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a...
A timely utterance gave that thought relief,
And I again am strong.
Source: Ode,...
Surprised by joy - impatient as the wind
I turned to share the transport.
Whither is fled the visionary gleam?
Where is it now, the glory and the dream?
Nature never did betray
The heart that loved her.
Source: Lines composed a few...
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers...
As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie
Couched on the bald top of an eminence.
When a damp
Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand
The thing became a trumpet; whence he...
O joy! that in our embers
Is something that doth live,
That nature yet remembers
What was so fugitive!
The...
Twas pastime to be bound
Within the sonnet's scanty plot of ground;
Pleased if some souls (for such there needs...
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room;
And hermits are contented with their...
Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf
Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun...
Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!
O Duty! if that name thou love
Who art a light to guide, a rod
To check...
Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its...