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In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:Where Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

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But yester-night I prayed aloud In anguish and in agony, Up-starting from the fiendish crowd Of shapes and thoughts that tortured me: A lurid light, a...more

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What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower ...more

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Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye! Seven days, seven nights...more

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Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink;Water, water, everywhere,Nor any drop to drink.

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Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

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The many men, so beautiful!And they all dead did lie:And a thousand thousand slimy thingsLived on; and so did I.

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Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.

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Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break The silence of the sea! All in a hot and copper...more

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that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith

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Poetry: the best words in the best order.

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Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

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No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.