To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYHeaven’s ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon’s unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
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Heaven’s ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon’s unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
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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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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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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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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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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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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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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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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
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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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Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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