Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYJoy, once lost, is pain.
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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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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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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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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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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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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
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