"Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children."
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"O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?"
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"What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars."
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"Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire, Poor Robin is yet flowerless; but how gay With his red stalks upon this sunny day!"
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"Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face."
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"All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them."
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"Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray."
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"Oh, be wise, Thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love."
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"Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays."
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""One impulse from a vernal wood"
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"Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams."
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"Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again."
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"The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth."
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"And mighty poets in their misery dead."
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"Great God! I'd rather be a Pagan."
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"Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives."
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"Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn"
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"The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers."
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"The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height."
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"The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart."
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