"The poet's darling."

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"A noticeable man, with large gray eyes."

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"And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain."

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"The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!"

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"Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever."

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"Great God! I 'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn."

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"Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again."

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"Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone."

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"Where is it now, the glory and the dream?"

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"Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home."

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"Soft is the music that would charm forever; The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly."

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"The imperfect offices of prayer and praise."

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"Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower."

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"And he is oft the wisest man Who is not wise at all."

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"The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose."

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"Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth: And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth."

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"Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive."

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"The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse."

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"How does the meadow-flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold."

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"One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition."

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"We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold Which Milton held."

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"Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,--miserable train!-- Turns his necessity to glorious gain."

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"A Briton even in love should be A subject, not a slave!"

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"Maidens withering on the stalk."

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"The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream."

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"The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket."

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"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar. Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory, do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy."

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"But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave."

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"The budding rose above the rose full blown."

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"Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness."

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"The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,--a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!"

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"Small service is true service while it lasts. Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one: The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun."

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"And 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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"To be a Prodigal's favourite,--then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,--behold our lot!"

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"Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives."

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"Earth helped him with the cry of blood."

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"We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted."

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"Two voices are there: one is of the sea, One of the mountains,--each a mighty voice."

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"And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed."

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"But shapes that come not at an earthly call Will not depart when mortal voices bid."

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"Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray."

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"Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart."

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"The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul."

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"A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles."

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"But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things."

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"Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark."

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"So build we up the being that we are."

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"Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!"

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"Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth."

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"Truths that wake, To perish never."

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