"There is a harmony In autumn, and a luster in its sky..."
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"A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty."
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"The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it."
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"A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."
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"The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom."
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"Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one."
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"Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth."
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"O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest."
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"I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear."
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"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
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"One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody."
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"Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city"
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"Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age."
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"February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams be free, And waked to music all their fountains, And breathed upon the frozen mountains."
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"True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, gazing on many truths."
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"The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments."
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"Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry."
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"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder."
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"How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep."
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"Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?"
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