Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYPoetry 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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I love tranquil solitude.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, – but it returneth!
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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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.
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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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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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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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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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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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