"Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh give me back my heart!"

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"Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty."

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"So we 'll go no more a-roving So late into the night."

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"Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!"

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"The power of thought,--the magic of the mind!"

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"This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction."

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"I see before me the gladiator lie."

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"Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin,--his control Stops with the shore."

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"And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power Which could evade, if unforgiven, The patient search and vigil long Of him who treasures up a wrong."

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"Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not, Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow?"

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"Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon."

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"All tenantless, save to the crannying wind."

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"I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand."

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"But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless."

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"Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried."

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"Hands promiscuously applied, Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side."

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"And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward; from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers, . . . . . And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane,--as I do here."

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"Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all save the spirit of man is divine?"

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"Such is the aspect of this shore; 'T is Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there."

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"Perverts the Prophets and purloins the Psalms."

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"But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be."

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"He left a corsair's name to other times, Link'd with one virtue and a thousand crimes."

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"All is concentr'd in a life intense, Where not a beam, nor air, nor leaf is lost, But hath a part of being."

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"When all of genius which can perish dies."

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"The nympholepsy of some fond despair."

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"But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell! Did ye not hear it?--No! 't was but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street. On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet."

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"The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,-- And oh, that eye was in itself a soul!"

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"Years steal Fire from the mind as vigour from the limb, And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim."

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"Coop'd in their winged, sea-girt citadel."

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"Fills The air around with beauty."

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"A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!"

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"Or whispering with white lips, "The foe! They come! they come!""

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"No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe."

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"The starry Galileo with his woes."

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"Let these describe the undescribable."

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"Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy?"

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"And what is writ is writ,-- Would it were worthier!"

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"The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed."

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"And there was mounting in hot haste."

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"Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after."

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"Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And hating no one, love but only her!"

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"By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone."

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"A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony."

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"Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock."

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"Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests."

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"The dust we tread upon was once alive."

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"She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that 's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which Heaven to gaudy day denies."

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"Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings."

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"At leaving even the most unpleasant people And places, one keeps looking at the steeple."

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"History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page."

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