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	Forlorn! the very word is like a bellTo toil me back from thee to my sole self!   
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	Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.   
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	As though a tongueless nightingale should swellHer throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell.   
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	Call the world if you please 'The vale of soul-making.'   
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	Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.   
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	I made a garland for her head,And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;She look'd at me as she did love,And made sweet moan.   
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	Bright star! would I were stedfast as thou art-Not in lone splendour hung aloft the nightAnd watching with eternal lids apart,Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,The moving waters at their priestlike taskOf pure ablution round earth's human shores.   
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	Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.   
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	What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.   
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	And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon.   
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	The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.   
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	And they are gone: ay, ages long agoThese lovers fled away into the storm.   
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	It keeps eternal whisperings aroundDesolate shores, and with its mighty swellGluts twice ten thousand Caverns, till the spellOf Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound.   
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	That large utterance of the early gods!   
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	I have nothing to speak of but my self-and what can I say but what I feel   
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	Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.   
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	St. Agnes’ Eve - Ah, bitter chill it was!The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;The hare limp’d trembling through the frozen grass,And silent was the flock in woolly fold.   
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	In drear-nighted December,Too happy, happy tree,Thy branches ne'er rememberTheir green felicity.   
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	E’en like the passage of an angel’s tearThat falls through the clear ether silently.   
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	And then there creptA little noiseless noise among the leaves,Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.   
