SUPPOSED TO BE ADDRESSED TO WILLIAM GODWIN. Mighty eagle! thou that soarest O'er the misty mountain forest, And amid the light of morning Like a cloud of glory hiest, And when night descends defiest The embattled tempests' warning!

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Love's Philosophy

The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the Ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and mingle.

Fragment on Keats

ON KEATS, WHO DESIRED THAT ON HIS TOMB SHOULD BE INSCRIBED-- 'Here lieth One whose name was writ on water.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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On This Day: Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehe

12/25 (1100): Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

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Twice had Summer her fair Verdure

Twice had Summer her fair Verdure Proffered to the Plain -- Twice a Winter's silver Fracture On the Rivers been -- Two full Autumns for...

Fragment: "Amor Aeternus"

Wealth and dominion fade into the mass Of the great sea of human right and wrong, When once from our possession they must pass; But love, though misdirected, is among The things which are immortal, and surpass All that frail...

Loss And Gain

When I compare What I have lost with what I have gained, What I have missed with what attained, Little room do I find for pride. I am aware How many days have been idly spent; How like an arrow...

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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I thought that nature was enough

I thought that nature was enough Till Human nature came But that the other did absorb As Parallax a Flame -- Of Human nature just...

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Emily Dickinson

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On This Day: The Treaty of Jaffa is signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, leading to the end of the Th

9/2 (1192): The Treaty of Jaffa is signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, leading to the end of the Third Crusade.

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On a Cornelian Heart Which Was Broken

Ill-fated Heart! and can it be, That thou shouldst thus be rent in twain? Have years of care for thine and thee Alike been all employed in vain?

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

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The Voice of the Ancient Bard

Youth of delight! come hither And see the opening morn, Image of Truth new-born. Doubt is fled, and clouds of reason, Dark disputes and artful teazing. Folly is an endless maze; Tangled roots perplex her ways; How many have fallen there!

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William Blake

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On This Day: American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory.

1/1 (1863): American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory.

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Further in Summer than the Birds

Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass. No Ordinance be seen So gradual the Grace...

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Emily Dickinson

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On This Day: A revolution breaks out in Hungary, and the Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the

3/15 (1848): A revolution breaks out in Hungary, and the Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the reform party.

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The Summer that we did not prize,

The Summer that we did not prize, Her treasures were so easy Instructs us by departing now And recognition lazy -- Bestirs itself -- puts...

"Hope" is the thing with feathers

"Hope" is the thing with feathers -- That perches in the soul -- And sings the tune without the words -- And never stops --...

"Faithful to the end" Amended

"Faithful to the end" Amended From the Heavenly Clause -- Constancy with a Proviso Constancy abhors -- "Crowns of Life" are servile Prizes To the...

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Emily Dickinson

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On This Day: The citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest in celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Lou

10/12 (1810): The citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest in celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Louis of Bavaria and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

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On This Day: Swedish Queen Christina abdicated her throne in favour of her cousin Charles Gustav and converted to

6/6 (1654): Swedish Queen Christina abdicated her throne in favour of her cousin Charles Gustav and converted to Catholicism.

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Epitaph. on Mr Elijah Fenton, at Easthamstead, in Berks, 1730.

This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man: A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learnèd...

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Alexander Pope

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