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Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
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Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the poor trudge refreshment scant, Age after age, pants on to find A melting mirage of the mind.
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LUCIFER: Only the chemistry of love can make Two atoms one.
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My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.
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A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one's personal history and that of one's friends, interwoven with one's tastes, preferences and character and constitutes a sort of unwritten autobiography.
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Through the dripping weeks that follow One another slow, and soak Summer's extinguished fire and autumn's drifting smoke.
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In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable smile.
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No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.
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In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine.
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He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.
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What are these! Shells flung far and wide By winter's snow fast-ebbing tide In language called, for him who sees But grossly, wood-anemones.
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If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.
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When held up to the window pane, What fixed my baby stare? The glory of the glittering rain, And newness everywhere.
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Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.
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From sunny woof and cloudy weft Fell rain in sheets; so, to myself I hummed these hazard rhymes, and left The learned volume on the shelf.
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Flash'd from his bed the electric tidings came,
'He is no better, he is much the same.'
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So, timely you came, and well you chose, You came when most needed, my winter rose. From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness.
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Never did form more fairy thread the dance Than she who scours the hills to find it flowers; Never did sweeter lips chained ears entrance Than hers that move, true to its striking hours; No hands so white e'er decked the warrior's lance, As those which tend its lamp as darkness lours; And never since dear Christ expired for man, Had holy shrine so fair a sacristan.
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Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.
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Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.
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Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.
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Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society...
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Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!
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For there is no gardening without humility, an assiduous willingness to learn, and a cheerful readiness to confess you were mistaken.
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No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Alfred Austin
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Born:
May 30, 1835
Died:
June 2, 1913
(aged 78)
Bio:
Alfred Austin was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896, after an interval following the death of Tennyson, when the other candidates had either caused controversy or refused the honour.
Known for:
The Garden That I Love (1895)
The Human Tragedy (1862)
Haunts of ancient peace (1901)
Fortunatus The Pessimist (1892)
Leszko the Bastard: A Tale of Polish Grief (1877)
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