Which fall'st into the soul like rain
Upon the Siroc-wither'd plain,
And, failing in thy power to bless,
But leav'st the heart a wilderness!
(Tamerlane)
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How daring an ambition; yet how deep-How fathomless a capacity for love!
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Thy soul shall find itself alone'Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude Which is not loneliness, for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee, and their will Shall overshadow thee be still.
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To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.
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Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door, Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
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Rich reliquary
Of lofty contemplation left to Time
By buried centuries of pomp and power!
Edgar Allan Poe
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