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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."
Scorn not the Sonnet.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"But he is risen, a later star of dawn."
A Morning Exercise.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark."
A Morning Exercise.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone."
The Triad.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows go!"
The Triad.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound."
On the Power of Sound. xii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift."
Presentiments.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Nature's old felicities."
The Trosachs.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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."
Poems composed during a Tour in the Summer of 1833. xxxvii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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."
To a Child. Written in her Album.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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."
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!"
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?"
Memorials of a Tour in Italy. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"How does the meadow-flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold."
A Poet! He hath put his Heart to School.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive."
Yes, Thou art Fair.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain