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Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream


George Linley

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Till Lethe quench life's burning stream
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SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
BARRY CORNWALL O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
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Myself have made thee so;
Yea, thou art fair indeed,
Whe...
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AKHENATON AKHENATON Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with r...
AKHENATON Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I was born upon thy bank, river,
My blood flows in thy stream,
And thou meanderest forever
...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy! Float near me; do not yet depart! ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate
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I break thee if thou a...
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BIBLE Methink'st thou art a general offence and every man should beat thee.
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Save Me, save only Me?
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ANGELUS SILESIUS All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer
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JAKOB BOHME Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 Incarnate Word! Thou Word of God alone! ...
THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that w...
JACOB BOEHME In treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I wil...
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BIBLE Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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ABU SA'ID And he said, O my LORD, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
BIBLE Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee - for whither thou goest, I wil...
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UGOLINO OF MONTEGIORGIO A breeze came wandering from the sky, Light as the whispers of a dream; He put the o'erhanging...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Thou art so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Satan, Death and Sin.
EDWARD YOUNG As if thou e'er wert angry But with thy tailor! and yet that poor shred Can bring more to the...
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BIBLE Be found of us whom Thou hast deigned to seek, / Be found that we the more may seek for Thee; / Lord...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Come to me now! O, come! benignest sleep! And fold me up, as evening doth a flower, From my ...
PATRICK PROCTOR ALEXANDER I send thee myrrh, not that thou mayest be by it perfumed, but it perfumed by thee
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WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and...
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and wit...
BIBLE I sleep with thee, and wake with thee,
And yet thou are not there;
I fill my arms with tho...
JOHN CLARE Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 O Lord our God, grant u...
ST. ANSELM Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that...
THOMAS HOOD Yet spirit immortal, the tomb cannot bind thee, But like thine own eagle that soars to the sun ...
THOMAS FULLER Cross the meadow and the stream and listen as the peaceful water brings peace upon your soul.
MAXIMILLIAN DEGENEREZ Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm...
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BIBLE Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.
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GEORGE ORWELL Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out i...
GEORGE ORWELL Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.
GEORGE OSBORNE You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends....
GEORGE STRAIT Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality...
GEORGE SOROS They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; bu...
GEORGE COMBE No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible
GEORGE BURNS I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be remind...
GEORGE GISSING It has long been a dream of mine that this important story one day would be told on the great Americ...
GEORGE TAKEI We all think we've got one more boxing match in us, and that, probably, will be the downfall of ...
GEORGE FOREMAN People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.
GEORGE FOREMAN I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65...
GEORGE FOREMAN Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt ...
GEORGE FOREMAN We'd always said boxers shouldn't lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started th...
GEORGE FOREMAN It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsi...
GEORGE GROSZ The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with,...
GEORGE GROSZ I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these t...
GEORGE CATLIN The Word

Wonder or dream from distant land
I carried to my country's strand
STEFAN GEORGE The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing some...
GEORGE LUCAS I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly ...
GEORGE GREY Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and c...
GEORGE MARTIN I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... so now I...
GEORGE CLOONEY I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.
GEORGE OSBORNE Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastr...
GEORGE OSBORNE It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in...
GEORGE WASHINGTON