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/ page 626 of 1205 /Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion
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My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky.
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I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
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Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.
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More like a man/ Flying from something that he dreads than one/ Who sought the thing he loved.
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Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks;Why all this toil and trouble?
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What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of Human suffering, In the faith that looks through death In years that bring philophic mind.
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Wisdom and spirit of the Universe Thou soul is the eternity of thought That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion Not in vain By day or star-light thus from by first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.
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Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished
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So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
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That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
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My heart leaps up when I beholdA rainbow in the sky.
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.
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The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.
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She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh, The difference to me!
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Often have I sighed to measureBy myself a lonely pleasure,Sighed to think, I read a bookOnly read, perhaps, by me.
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Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower...
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The good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can.
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The world is too much with us late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon
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