Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
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Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid – in which case all comment is superfluous – or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
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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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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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