Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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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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The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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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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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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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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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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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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