The light that never was, on sea or land The consecration, and the Poet's dream.
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The waves beside them danced but they; Out-did the sparkling waves in glee; A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company.William Wordsworth
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
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The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
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A reasoning, self-sufficing thing, An intellectual all-in-all.
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I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
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