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• ‘Alas!’ said she, ‘we ne’er can be Made happy by compulsion!’

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• O pure of heart! thou need’st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be! What, and wherein it doth exist, This light, this glory, this fair luminous mist, This beautiful and beauty-making power.

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• Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth—And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth Of all sweet sounds the life and element !

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• Those sounds which oft have raised me, whilst they awed, And sent my soul abroad, Might now perhaps their wonted impulse give, Might startle this dull pain, and make it move and live!

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• Belove’ d, what are names but air ? Choose thou whatever suits the line; Call me Sappho, call me Chloris, Call me Lalage or Doris, Only, only call me Thine.

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• And hark! the Nightingale begins its song, ‘Most musical, most melancholy’ bird! A melancholy bird?…his song Should make all Nature lovelier, and itself Be loved like Nature!

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• Bells, the poor man’s only music.

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• The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind.

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• O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.

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• He went like one that hath been stunned, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.

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• He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small.

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• No voice, but oh! the silence sank Like music on my heart.

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• Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

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• We were a ghastly crew.

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• A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware.

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• And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

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• I fear thee ancient Mariner! I fear thy skinny hand! And thou art long, and lank, and brown, As is the ribbed sea-sand.

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• Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yes, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.

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• As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

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• We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.

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Birth:	21st October, 1772
Death:	25th July, 1834
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Critic, Philosopher, Poet

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