I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYHell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
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Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
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And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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