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This book is a compilation of poems that explore a wide range of subjects and emotions, showcasing the beauty and depth of the poetic form.
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“When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.”
“My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark.”
“To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.”
“By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess.”
“The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.”
“As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.”
“Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.”
“Humbleness is always grace; always dignity”
“You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.”
“The land is dearer for the sea, The ocean for the shore.”
“No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, Wild laughter of the loon.”
“Fear is the fire that melts Icarian wings.”
“How much can come And much can go, And yet abide the world!”
“The same heart beats in every human breast.”
“And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.”
“It made and preserves us a nation.”
“Nothing is higher than the love of truth.”
“Solitude is very sad, Too much company twice as bad.”
“Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation.”
“One who can see without seeming to see-- That's an observer as good as three.”
“Sin we have explain'd away; Unluckily, the sinners stay.”
“Scarcely a tear to shed; Hardly a word to say; The end of a Summer's day; Sweet Love is dead.”