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The feather, whence the pen
Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men,
Dropped from an Angel's wing.
Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)
But shapes that come not at an earthly call,
Will not depart when mortal voices bid.
Yet tears to human suffering are due;
And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown
Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.
Laodamia (1814)
Sweetest melodies
Are those that are by distance made more sweet.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.
Pleasures newly found are sweet
When they lie about our feet.
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
One of those heavenly days that cannot die.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
O dearer far than light and life are dear.
The unconquerable pang of despised love.
The soft blue sky did never melt
Into his heart; he never felt
The witchery of the soft blue sky!
Peter Bell (1798)
Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves
Of their bad influence, and their good receives.
Character of the Happy Warrior (1806)
When the fretful stir
Unprofitable, and the fever of the world
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.
The cattle are grazing,
Their heads never raising;
There are forty feeding like one!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.
Lyrical Ballads (1798)
But who would force the soul tilts with a straw
Against a champion cased in adamant.
Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)
While all the future, for thy purer soul,
With "sober certainties" of love is blest.
And often, glad no more,
We wear a face of joy because
We have been glad of yore.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)