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Like an enchantress here thou show'st, Vexing thy restless lover's ghost;...

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Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root,...

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The forward Youth that would appear Must now forsake his Muses dear, Nor in the Shadows sing His Numbers languishing.

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And shew that Nature wants an Art To conquer one resolved Heart.

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Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

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Here thou art painted in the dress Of an inhuman murderess;...

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I breathe for art. For the divineness of it. For the madness of art that cures me.

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

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His face was filled with broken commandments.

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But gathering as we stray, a sense Of Life, so lovely and intense,...

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Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

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They change, and we, who pass like foam, Like dust blown through the streets of Rome, Change ever, too; we have no home,

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Since moons decay and suns decline, How else should end this life of mine?

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Out of the earth to rest or range Perpetual in perpetual change, The unknown passing through the strange.

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I am Anne Rutledge who sleep beneath these weeds, Beloved in life of Abraham Lincoln,...

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Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.

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Degenerate sons and daughters, Life is too strong for you— It takes life to love Life.

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The eye-balls were seared with a milky mucus; The madness of a dying soul...

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Lo! he babbles of the fish-frys of long ago, Of the horse-races of long ago at Clary's Grove,...

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by Spoon Rivergathering many a shell, And many a flower and medicinal weed—...

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