When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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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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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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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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