Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHPoetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
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As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.
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Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
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He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure.
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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
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We live by admiration, hope and love.
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In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
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Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.
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A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer’s joy.
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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from.
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Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
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O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
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And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner’s eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple.
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar.
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