"I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and leaves me bare and charred."
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"Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides."
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"Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper."
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"A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear."
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"How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door."
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"An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near."
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"I could not prove the Years had feet-/Yet confident they run."
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"So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy."
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"Banish Air from Air Divide Light if you dare"
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"A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels."
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"A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad On Solitary Fields That Science cannot overtake But Human Nature feels. It waits upon the Lawn, It shows the furthest Tree Upon the furthest Slope you know It almost speaks to you. Then as Horizons step Or Noons report away Without the Formula of sound It passes and we stay - A quality of loss Affecting our Content As Trade had suddenly encroached Upon a Sacrament."
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"There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity."
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"This World is not Conclusion. A Sequel stands beyond- Invisible, as Music- But positive, as Sound."
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"When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he."
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"He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees. Prepares your brittle substance For the ethereal blow by fainter hammers, further heard, Then nearer, then so slow Your breath has time to straighten Your brain to bubble cool,- Deals one imperial thunderbolt That scalps your naked soul."
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"A Clock stopped-- Not the Mantel's-- Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing-- That just now dangled still"
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"A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld,— The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies,— Lest interview annul a want That image satisfies."
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"It sounded as if the streets were running, And then the streets stood still."
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"Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured."
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"Two Seasons, it is said, exist- The Summer of the Just, And this of Ours, diversified With Prospect, and with Frost- May not our Second with its First So infinite compare That We but recollect the one The other to prefer?"
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