"Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness."
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"Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold."
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"Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth: And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth."
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"A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven."
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"I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more."
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"The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality."
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"How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!"
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"Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy."
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"Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee."
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"Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised"
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"Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart."
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"The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills."
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"The first cuckoo's melancholy cry."
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"A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows."
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"Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs."
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"The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow"
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"Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream."
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"The memory of the just survives in Heaven."
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"She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn."
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"Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none"
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