He was a gentle boy
And in all gentle sorts took joy.
(Rosalind And Helen: A Modern Eclogue)
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And his own thoughts, along that rugged way Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice isle in Bai's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them.
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The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want worse need for them. The wise want love and those who love want wisdom And all best things are thus confused to ill.
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The Sea, in storm or calm,
Heaven's ever-changing Shadow, spread below,
Have its deaf waves not heard my agony?
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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Man were immortal, and omnipotent,
Didst thou, unknown and awful as thou art,
Keep with thy glorious train firm state within his heart.
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