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"Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever."
"For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good."
"It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly."
"A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable."
"Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither."
"Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?"
"There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast."
"Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!"
"The child is father of the man."
"No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees."
"poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge"
"Sweetest melodies.Are those that are by distance made more sweet."
"Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven."
"And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed."
"Before us lay a painful road, And guidance have I sought in duteous love From Wisdom's heavenly Father. Hence hath flowed Patience, with trust that, whatsoe'er the way Each takes in this high matter, all may move Cheered with the prospect of a brighter day."
"A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone."
"I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man."
"I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee."
"My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard."
"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."