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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...
Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its...
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by,
One after one; the sound of rain and bees
Murmuring; the fall of...
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A maid whom there were none to praise
And very...
Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong.
Source: Ode to Duty
-- William...
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its...