With close-lipp'd Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbour to Despair.
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Natures great law, and the law of all mens minds To its own impulse every creature stirs Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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In his poetry as well as in his life Shelley was indeed 'a beautiful and ineffectual angel', beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.
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We do not what we ought What we ought not, we do And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.
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A god, a god their severance ruled!
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