“The poet's scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. The Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.”
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“The poet's scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. The Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.”
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“It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.”
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“Aye me, how many perils do enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall? Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And steadfast truth acquite him out of all.”
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“I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.”
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“One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide and made my p...”
“My Love Is Like To Ice, And I To Fire My love is like to ice, and I to fire; How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolv'd through my so hot desire, But harder grows the mor...”
“Yet gold all is not, that doth gold seem, Nor all good knights, that shake well spear and shield: The worth of all men by their end esteem, And then praise, or due reproach them yield.”
“Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?”
“One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.”
“For love is a celestial harmony Of likely hearts compos'd of stars' concent, Which join together in sweet sympathy, To work each other's joy and true content, Which they have harbour'd since...”
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“Gold all is not that doth golden seem.”
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“What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?”
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“Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.”
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“He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.”
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“And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.”
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“The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.”
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“Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.”
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“Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.”
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