"The gentle Lady married to the Moor, And heavenly Una with her milk-white lamb."

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"Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!-- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays."

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"Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place."

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"By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same!"

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"There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast."

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"Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream."

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"But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover."

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"Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws."

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"Like,--but oh how different!"

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"Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees."

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"'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind."

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"Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged."

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"A remnant of uneasy light."

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"Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her."

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"The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive!"

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"Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold."

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"That inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude."

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"A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove."

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"But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant."

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"Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness."

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"When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone."

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"Mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is Love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favorite seat be feeble woman's breast."

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"The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more."

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"A few strong instincts, and a few plain rules."

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"I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell, To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy, for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with his native sea."

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"That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair."

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"Oh for a single hour of that Dundee Who on that day the word of onset gave!"

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"At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day."

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"We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument In working out a pure intent."

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"A brotherhood of venerable trees."

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"The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours."

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"Of blessed consolations in distress."

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"Where music dwells Lingering and wandering on as loth to die, Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality."

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"Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow!"

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"Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love."

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"Another morn Risen on mid-noon."

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"A power is passing from the earth."

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"This dull product of a scoffer's pen."

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"The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction."

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"She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn."

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"A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident to-morrows."

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"Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice; Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye, Frozen by distance."

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"For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago."

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"The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing."

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"The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift."

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"How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!"

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"And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw."

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"Pan himself, The simple shepherd's awe-inspiring god!"

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"That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton."

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"Thou unassuming commonplace Of Nature."

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