Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.
"
Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last!
"
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and plea...
"
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
"
Alas! this is not what I thought life was.I knew that there were crimes and evil men,Misery and hate; nor did I hope to passUntouched by suffering, th...
"
We look before and after, And pine for what is not:Our sincerest laughterWith some pain is fraught;Our sweetest songs are those that tell Of saddest t...
