Good Friday Good Friday in my heart! Fear and affright! My thoughts are the disciples when they fled, My words the words that priest and soldier said, My deed the spear to desecrate the dead. And day, Thy death therein, is changed to night. Then Easter in my heart sends up the sun. My thoughts are Mary, when she turned to see, My words are Peter, answering, 'Lov'st thou me?' My deeds are all Thine own drawn close to Thee. And night and day, since thou dost rise, are one.


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A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.
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And so, his senses gradually wrapt In a half sleep, he dreams of better worlds, And dreaming h...
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He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility! And the Devil did grin, fo...
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The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she.
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'Tis the merry nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble h...
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Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy ...
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So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
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Dew-drops are the gems of morning, But the tears of mournful eve!
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Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With...
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A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
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My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!
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Her gentle limbs did she undress, And lay down in her loveliness.
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Silence is a friend who will never betray.
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Talk of the devil, and his horns appear
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The moving moon went up to the sky, And nowhere did abide; Softly she was going up, And ...
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"Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought! In nature there i...
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Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in their best order.
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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess which will itself need ...
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Silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet moon.
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For why drives on that ship so fast, Without or wave or wind? The air is cut away before, ...
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Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns...
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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree; Where Alph, the sacred river ran, ...
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O sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole! To Mary Queen the praise be given! ...
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Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wep...
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Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, w...
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kis...
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A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are ...
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Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to Heaven ...
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Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.
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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act ...
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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very ...
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kis...
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a bli...
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman wor...
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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They...
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Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into t...
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Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on <...
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Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to...
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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of...
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That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-i...
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Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
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O! lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone doth nature live; Ours is her wed...
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Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks o...
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Never, believe me, Appear the Immortals, Never alone.
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While many a glowworm in the shade Lights up her love torch.
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Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each...
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Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
No...
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro...
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man, ...
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It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or an...
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A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power ...
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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagin...
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No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
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The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into ...
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Treading beneath their feet all visible things, As steps that upwards to their Father's throne ...
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Those holies of themselves a shape As of an arbor took.
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