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Could I find a place to be alone with heaven,
I would speak my heart out heaven is my need.
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Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.
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Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: "an unusual combination," in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her.
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Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping
Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star.
Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried,
Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.
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Sunrays, leaning on our southern hills and lighting
Wild cloud-mountains that drag the hills along,
Oft ends the day of your shifting brilliant laughter
Chill as a dull face frowning on a song.
Ay, but shows the South-west a ripple-feathered bosom
Blown to silver while the clouds are shaken and ascend
Scaling the mid-heavens as they stream, there comes a sunset
Rich, deep like love in beauty without end.
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Well, the flowers of the field are frail things. Pluck one, and you have in your hand the frailest of things. But reach through the charm of colour and the tale of its beneficence in frailty to the poetry of the flower, and secret of the myriad stars will fail to tell you more than does that poetry of your little flower.
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The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.
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For him the woods were a home and gave him the key Of knowledge, thirst for their treasures in herbs and flowers. The secrets held by the creatures nearer than we To earth he sought, and the link of their life with ours.
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Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.
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How many a thing which we cast to the ground,
When others pick it up, becomes a gem!
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"How divine is utterance!" she said. "As we to the brutes, poets are to us."
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Earth, the mother of all,
Moves on her stedfast way,
Gathering, flinging, sowing.
Mortals, we live in her day,
She in her children is growing.
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And if I drink oblivion of a day,
So shorten I the stature of my soul.
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The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.
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More brain, O Lord, more brain! or we shall mar
Utterly this fair garden we might win.
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Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.
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Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank,
The army of unalterable law.
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We never know what's in us till we stand by ourselves (George Meredith, ORF)
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A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.
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Into the breast that gives the rose,
Shall I with shuddering fall?
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I've studied men from my topsy-turvy
Close, and I reckon, rather true.
Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy;
Most, a dash between the two.
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What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.
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Full lasting is the song, though he,
The singer, passes
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A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that...
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See ye not, Courtesy
Is the true Alchemy,
Turning to gold all it touches and tries?
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
George Meredith
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Born:
February 12, 1828
Died:
May 18, 1909
(aged 81)
Bio:
George Meredith was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era.
Known for:
The Egoist (1879)
Modern Love (1891)
Diana of the Crossways (1885)
The Shaving of Shagpat (1856)
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