Thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, / In some melodious plot / of beechen green, and shadows numberless, / Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought / As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
Thy plaintive anthem fades / Past the near meadows, over the still stream, / Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep / In the next valley-glades: / Was it a vision or a waking dream? / Fled is that music: - Do I wake or sleep?
To set budding more, / And still more, later flowers for the bees, / Until they think warm days will never cease, / For summer has o'erbrimmed their clammy cells.
To Sorrow / I bade good-morrow, / And thought to leave her far away behind; / But cheerly, cheerly, / She loves me dearly; / She is so constant to me, and so kind.
Turn the key deftly in the oilèd wards, / And seal the hushèd Casket of my Soul.
Upon the honeyed middle of the night.
Verse, Fame and Beauty are intense indeed, But Death intenser - Death is Life's high meed
Virgin-choir to make delicious moan / Upon the midnight hours.
We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
When I behold, upon the night's starred face, / Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance.
When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain
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