I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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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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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, – To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
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First 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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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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