Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHImagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.
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Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.
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Rest and be thankful.
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Wisdom married to immortal verse.
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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
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Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
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Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society.
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In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.
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From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
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A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer’s joy.
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My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.
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And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.
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Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.
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