Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYFirst our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
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And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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I love tranquil solitude.
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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.
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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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