"Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion."
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"That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton."
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"A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove."
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"The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears."
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"If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God."
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"And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain."
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"Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil and droop, and seek repose In listlessness from vain perplexity, Unprofitably travelling towards the grave."
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"These hoards of wealth you can unlock at will."
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"Behold the Child among his new-born blisses A six years' Darling of a pigmy size! See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies, Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses, With light upon him from his father's eyes! See, at his feet, some little plan or chart, Some fragment from his dream of human life, Shaped by himself with newly-learned art."
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"Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?"
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"The budding rose above the rose full blown."
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"Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns."
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"Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will; Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!"
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"Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind."
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"The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart."
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"But how can he expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?"
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