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"There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!"
A Vision of Poets.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine."
A Vision of Poets.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men."
A Vision of Poets.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death."
A Vision of Poets. Conclusion.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west."
Toll slowly.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness, Round our restlessness His rest."
Rhyme of the Duchess.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Or from Browning some "Pomegranate," which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity."
Lady Geraldine's Courtship. xli.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave."
Crowned and buried. xxvii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man."
To George Sand. A Desire.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"By thunders of white silence."
Hiram Power's Greek Slave.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair; And they heard the words it said,-- "Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!""
The Dead Pan.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen.""
Catarina to Camoens. ix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows."
Little Mattie. Stanza ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware."
Bianca among the Nightingales. xii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in 't."
Aurora Leigh. Book ii.
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"The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume, And take for a worthier stage the soul itself, Its shifting fancies and celestial lights, With all its grand orchestral silences To keep the pauses of its rhythmic sounds."
Aurora Leigh. Book v.
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