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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYLove’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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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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Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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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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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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