"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on,-- Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone."

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"Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is--Love, forgive us!--cinders, ashes, dust."

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"Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn."

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"There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings."

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"As though a rose should shut and be a bud again."

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"He ne'er is crown'd With immortality, who fears to follow Where airy voices lead."

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"Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow."

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"Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time."

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"To sorrow I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind."

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"That large utterance of the early gods!"

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"The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled."

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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

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"Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?"

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"Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die? Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh."

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"The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask."

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"Abide with me from morn till eve, For without Thee I cannot live; Abide with me when night is nigh, For without Thee I dare not die."

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"'T is sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, in faith to muse How grows in Paradise our store."

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"Cold on Canadian hills or Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent mourned her soldier slain; Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew Gave the sad presage of his future years,-- The child of misery, baptized in tears."

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"Oh could I fly, I 'd fly with thee! We 'd make with joyful wing Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the spring."

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"Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year."

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"The moon had climb'd the highest hill Which rises o'er the source of Dee, And from the eastern summit shed Her silver light on tower and tree."

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"It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study."

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"Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly."

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"The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks."

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"Did not Jupiter transforme himselfe into the shape of Amphitrio to embrace Alcmæna; into the form of a swan to enjoy Leda; into a Bull to beguile Io; into a showre of gold to win Danae?"

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"How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, The morne not waking til she sings."

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"Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses: Cupid paid. He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows: Loses them too. Then down he throws The coral of his lip, the rose Growing on 's cheek (but none knows how); With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple on his chin: All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes: She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this to thee? What shall, alas! become of me?"

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"The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone."

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"I cast before the Moone."

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"Though the Camomill, the more it is trodden and pressed downe the more it spreadeth."

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"He reckoneth without his Hostesse. Love knoweth no lawes."

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"There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire."

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"Lette me stande to the maine chance."

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"I mean not to run with the Hare and holde with the Hounde."

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"I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head."

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"Your eyes are so sharpe that you cannot onely looke through a Milstone, but cleane through the minde."

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"A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne."

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"A clere conscience is a sure carde."

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"It is a world to see."

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"As lyke as one pease is to another."

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"Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate."

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"Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest."

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"A comely olde man as busie as a bee."

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"Goe to bed with the Lambe, and rise with the Larke."

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"O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death."

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"Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair."

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"Or if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook, that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God."

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"The never-ending flight Of future days."

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"Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower."

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"In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost."

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