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So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.
Lord Byron
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Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way
Isaac Rosenberg
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Though like the wanderer,
The sun gone down,
Darkness be over me,
My rest a stone;
Yet in my dreams I'd be
Nearer, my God, to Thee.
Sarah Fuller Flower Adams
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A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.
Richard Aldington
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My flocks feed not, my ewes breed not,
My rams speed not, all is amiss.
Richard Barnfield
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Forever seeking, never found,
In this wide varied scene;
Sole object of unceasing search,
While in this low terrene.
Yet vain the search, if in the heart
Some lurking passion dwell;
For this will hang with cypress wreath
Retirement's secret cell.
In vain the outward scene is calm,
In vain the world we fly;
If thou, in pure religion's garb,
Thy friendly aid deny.
Elizabeth Bath
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This is the sanctification of your studies: when they are devoted to God, and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.
Richard Baxter
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It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter.
Max Beerbohm
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The little street
Into its gloom retires, secluded and shy.
Laurence Binyon
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Ay, this is the famed rock, which Hercules
And Goth and Moor bequeathed us. At this door
England stands sentry.
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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My Lord Tomnoddy is thirty-four;
The Earl can last but a few years more.
My Lord in the Peers will take his place:
Her Majesty's councils his words will grace.
Office he'll hold and patronage sway;
Fortunes and lives he will vote away;
And what are his qualifications?—ONE!
He's the Earl of Fitzdotterel's eldest son.
Robert Barnabas Brough
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Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.
Frances Burney
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Light was first
Through the Lord's word Named day:
Beauteous, bright creation!
Cædmon
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Ask me no more, where those stars light,
That downwards fall in dead of night;
For in your eyes they sit, and there
Fixed become, as in their sphere.
Thomas Carew
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O, Winter! Put away thy snowy pride;
O, Spring! Neglect the cowslip and the bell;
O, Summer! Throw thy pears and plums aside;
O, Autumn! Bid the grape with poison swell.
Thomas Chatterton
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One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers.
John Clare
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Be but faithful, that is all;
Go right on, and close behind thee
There shall follow still and find thee Help, sure help.
Arthur Hugh Clough
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For when thy folding-star arising shows
His paly circlet, at his warning lamp
The fragrant hours, and elves
Who slept in buds the day,
And many a nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge
And sheds the fresh'ning dew, and lovelier still,
The pensive pleasures sweet
Prepare thy shadowy car.
William Collins
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The doctor looked wise: — "A slow fever," he said: Prescribed sudorifics, — and going to bed. "Sudorifics in bed," exclaim'd Will, "are humbugs! I've enough of them there, without paying for drugs!"
George Colman the Younger
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I do love thee as my lambs
Are belovėd of their dams
Henry Constable
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Whoso maintains that I am humbled now
(Who wait the Awful Day) is still a liar;
I hope to meet my Maker brow to brow
And find my own the higher.
Frances Cornford
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True modesty is a discerning grace
And only blushes in the proper place;
But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear,
Where 'tis a shame to be asham'd t' appear:
Humility the parent of the first,
The last by vanity produc'd and nurs'd.
William Cowper
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When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.
Walter de la Mare
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Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.
John Denham
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