Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHOur birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar.
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The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
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Great men have been among us; hands that penn’d and tongues that utter’d wisdom.
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My heart leaps up when I behold
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The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet’s dream.
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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from.
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A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light.
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The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
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Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
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Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
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The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.
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He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure.
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And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner’s eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple.
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Faith is a passionate intuition.
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One daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.
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