Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYFame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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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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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea – What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?
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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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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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