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Two Voices are there; one is of the sea,
One of the mountains; each a mighty Voice.
But thou that didst appear so fair
To fond imagination,
Dost rival in the light of day
Her delicate creation.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all
The dreary intercourse of daily life.
Elysian beauty, melancholy grace,
Brought from a pensive though a happy place.
Laodamia (1814)
And that unless above himself he can
Erect himself, how poor a thing is man.
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark,
And shares the nature of infinity.
The Borderers (1842)
Turning, for them who pass, the common dust
Of servile opportunity to gold.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
Lyrical Ballads (1798)
Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows
That for oblivion take their daily birth
From all the fuming vanities of earth.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Whose powers shed round him in the common strife,
Or mild concerns of ordinary life,
A constant influence, a peculiar grace.
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain
That has been, and may be again.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
To the solid ground
Of Nature trusts the mind that builds for aye.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift,
That no philosophy can lift.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Lady of the Mere,
Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.
Lyrical Ballads (1798)
We meet thee, like a pleasant thought,
When such are wanted.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
A happy youth, and their old age
Is beautiful and free.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill;
perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command.
She Was a Phantom of Delight (1804)
Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee: she is a fen
Of stagnant waters.
What is pride? A whizzing rocket
That would emulate a star.