Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHThought 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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But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.
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Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.
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The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
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Our 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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But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.
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There is a comfort in the strength of love; ‘Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.
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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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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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Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
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Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
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A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.
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But He is risen, a later star of dawn.
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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
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May books and nature be their early joy!
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