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We never know how high we areTill we are called to rise;And then, if we are true to plan,Our statures touch the skies.The heroism we reciteWould be a ...more

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I wonder if it hurts to live,And if they have to try,And whether, could they choose between,They would not rather die.

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Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye....

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THERE is no frigate like a book/ To take us lands away...

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Split the Lark—and you'll find the Music, Bulb after Bulb, in Silver rolled.

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Consciousness is the only home of which we know.

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So bashful when I spied her!So pretty ― so ashamed!So hidden in her leafletsLest anybody find ―So breathless till I passed her ―So helpless when I tur...more

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There's a certain slant of light,On winter afternoons,That oppresses, like the weightOf cathedral tunes.

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Success is counted sweetest by those ne'er succeed.

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I measure every Grief I meetWith narrow, probing, Eyes;I wonder if It weighs like Mine,Or has an Easier size.

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Because I could not stop for Death,He kindly stopped for me;The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd Immortality.We slowly drove, he knew no haste,And ...more

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There is a pain – so utter – It swallows substance up – Then covers the Abyss with Trance – So Memory can step Around – across – opon it – As one with...more

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He ate and drank the precious words,His spirit grew robust;He knew no more that he was poor,Nor that his frame was dust.He danced along the dingy days...more

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Love is like the wild rose-briar;Friendship like the holly-tree.The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms,But which will bloom most constantly?The ...more

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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.