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"I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness."
"The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!"
"In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind."
"Plain living and high thinking are no more."
"The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun."
"Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know."
"Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more."
"Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee."
"A tale in everything."
"That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened."
"This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air."
"Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower."
"Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees."
"True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved."
"Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?"
"As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low."
"Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells."
"Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood."
"Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil."
"My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man."