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/ page 628 of 1205 /Oh, be wiser thou!Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.
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She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament.
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Stern winter loves a dirge-like sound.
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Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room;And hermits are contented with their cells.
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What is a Poet? "He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them."
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Small circles glittering idly in the moon,/ Until they melted all into one track/ Of sparkling light.
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When a damp/ Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand/ The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew/ Soul-animating strains - alas, too few!
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Soft is the music that would charm for ever;The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.
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I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
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Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
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Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
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If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line of death.
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It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.
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And in a comic mood, In mid-air take to bed a wife.
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But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
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Flouncing your skirts, you blueness of joy, you flirt of politeness, You leap, you intelligence, essence of wheelness with silvery nose, And your platinum clocks of excitement stir like the hairs of a fern.
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The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?
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