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The youth who daily farther from the east
Must travel, still is Nature's priest,
And by the vision...
The mightiest lever known to the moral world, imagination.
Source: In Pearls of...
Is there not
An art, a music, and a stream of words
That shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of...
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
Source: Miscellaneous Sonnets,...
Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore
Of nicely-calculated less or more.
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for...
Whither is fled the visionary gleam
Where is it now, the glory and the dream.
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a...
For still, the more he works, the more
Do his weak ankles swell.
Source: Simon...
But an old age serene and bright,
And lovely as a Lapland night,
Shall lead thee to thy...
A youth to whom was given
So much of earth - so much of heaven,
And such impetuous...
My brain
Worked with a dim and undetermined sense
Of unknown modes of being.
All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in...
Suffering is permanent, obscure, and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Strongest minds
Are often those of whom the noisy world
Hears least.
Source:...
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.
Source: 'The...
With an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of...
That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of...
You must love him, ere to you
He will seem worthy of your love.
Source: A Poet's...
One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead.
Source:...