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Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses

Bayard Taylor

So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
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Home Mountain Perfect
Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of ‘creature comforts,’ a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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Comfort Sea Voyages
The Poet’s leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
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Poet Process Years
Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence, and we twain, Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same, As in a spectral mirror wandered there.
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Mirror Mirrors Self Summer Wander
Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth’s prolific lap.
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Earth Rain Sap
I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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Love Old Shall You
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Pain Sea Wind
The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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Streams Wells Wisdom
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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Observation People
Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.
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Ashes Death Green
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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Mind Mountain Past
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Cannons Carry Pens
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Atmosphere Country World
The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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Apollo Athlete Race
Life lives only in success.
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Life Live Success
Peace the offspring is of Power.
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Offspring Peace

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