Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThis lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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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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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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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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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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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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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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