Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds
Along the pebbled shore of memory!
Many old rotten-timber'd boats there be
Upon thy vaporous bosom, magnified
To goodly vessels; many a sail of pride,
And golden keel'd, is left unlaunch'd and dry.


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No sooner had I stepp'd into these pleasures
Than I began to think of rhymes and measures:
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I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
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My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs
for their religion--
I have shuddered at...
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Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye.
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I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
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My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for ...
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases;
It will never
Pass into...
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If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness
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Leaving great verse unto a little clan.
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Souls of poets dead and gone, / What Elysium have ye known, / Happy field or mossy cavern, / Choicer...
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Away with old Romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts; Away with love-verses, s...
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Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf; He shows his clothes! alas! he shows himself. O...
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I wish I could say Tom was any better. His identity presses upon me so all day that I am obliged to ...
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A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity - he is continual...
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Their smiles, / Wan as primroses gathered at midnight / By chilly-fingered Spring.
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Where's the cheek that doth not fade, / Too much gazed at?
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The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;/ And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
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I stood tip-toe upon a little hill.
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Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu
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I do think better of womankind than to suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five feet high li...
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Where's the face / One would meet in every place? / Where's the voice, however soft, / One would hea...
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I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, / Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs.
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Pass into nothingness.
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A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
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Once upon a time, the American met the Automobile and fell in love. Unfortunately, this led him into...
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On a half-reapèd furrow sound asleep, / Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook / Spares t...
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Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
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I see a lilly on thy brow, / With anguish moist and fever dew; / And on thy cheek a fading rose / Fa...
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Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
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Hard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain / Clings cruelly to us.
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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the high...
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And there I shut her wild, wild eyes / With kisses four.
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The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a ...
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O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!
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When I behold, upon the night's starred face, / Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance.
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I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart's affections and the Truth of the Imagination
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Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lo...
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Mortality / Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep.
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Parting they seemed to tread upon the air,/ Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart / Only to meet agai...
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Point me out the way / To any one particular beauteous star.
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Now a soft kiss -- Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss
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St Agnes' Eve - Ah, bitter chill it was! / The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; / The hare lim...
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Thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, / In some melodious plot / of beechen green, and shadows numb...
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I have good reason to be content,
for thank God I can read and
perhaps understand Shakespe...
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Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I...
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Fairy Song
Shed no tear! oh, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep n...
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