Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art– Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite.
JOHN KEATSLike a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.
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The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
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Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
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I have so much of you in my heart.
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Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
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She press’d his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
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Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?
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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
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As the Swiss inscription says: “Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;” or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
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