"The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust; His soul is with the saints, I trust."

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"In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column, In the pentameter aye falling in melody back."

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"A lady richly clad as she, Beautiful exceedingly."

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"A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune."

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"Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare, And shot my being through earth, sea, and air, Possessing all things with intensest love, O Liberty! my spirit felt thee there."

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"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree, Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea."

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"He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast."

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"As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean."

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"Clothing the palpable and familiar With golden exhalations of the dawn."

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"That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense."

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"We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea."

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"And the spring comes slowly up this way."

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"Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny, and youth is vain, And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain."

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"The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside."

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"What outward form and feature are He guesseth but in part; But what within is good and fair He seeth with the heart."

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"Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, Sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, Drops his blue-fring'd lids, and holds them close, And hooting at the glorious sun in heaven Cries out, "Where is it?""

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"My eyes make pictures when they are shut."

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"Earth with her thousand voices praises God."

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"Ye living flowers that skirt the eternal frost."

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"A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware."

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"Schiller has the material sublime."

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"Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head, Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread."

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"A charm For thee, my gentle-hearted Charles, to whom No sound is dissonant which tells of life."

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"And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility."

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"He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child."

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"That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!"

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"The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths,--all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason."

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"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose,--words in their best order; poetry,--the best words in their best order."

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"The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?"

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"A dwarf sees farther than the giant when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on."

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"Iago's soliloquy, the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful it is!"

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"They stood aloof, the scars remaining,-- Like cliffs which had been rent asunder: A dreary sea now flows between."

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"Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines."

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"Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn."

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"Motionless torrents! silent cataracts!"

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"Perhaps 't is pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm."

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"Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole."

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"The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence."

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"Hast thou a charm to stay the morning star In his steep course?"

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"Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light."

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"So lonely 't was, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be."

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"Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea."

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"A sight to dream of, not to tell!"

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"I 've lived and loved."

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"Often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks to-morrow."

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"For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise."

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"Her face, oh call it fair, not pale!"

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"Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame."

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"A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive."

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"A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn."

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