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That queen of secrecy, the violet. - [Flowers] The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university. - [Shakespeare] The thought, the deadly feel, of solitude. - [Solitude] There is not a fiercer hell than failure in a great object. - [Failure] What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. - [Imagination] 'Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they? - A Prophecy (l. 1) [Night] Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings? - Addressed to Haydon (sonnet X) [Hearing] Blue! Gentle cousin of the forest green, Married to green in all the sweetest flowers-- Forget-me-not,--the blue bell,--and, that queen Of secrecy, the violet: what strange powers Hast thou, as a mere shadow! But how great, When in an Eye thou art alive with fate! - Answer to a Sonnet by J.H. Reynolds [Fate] Roses, and pinks, and violets, to adorn The shrine of Flora in her early May. - Dedication to Leigh Hunt [Flowers] No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream. - Endymion (bk. I) [Immortality] Time, that aged nurse Rocked me to patience. - Endymion (bk. I) [Time] A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. - Endymion (bk. I, l. 1) [Beauty : Books (First Lines) : Proverbs] Rain-scented eglantine Gave temperate sweets to the well-wooing sun. - Endymion (bk. I, l. 100) [Sweetbrier Roses] And in his left he held a basket full Of all sweet herbs that searching eye could cull Wild thyme, and valley-lilies whiter still Than Leda's love, and cresses from the rill. - Endymion (bk. I, l. 155) [Lilies-of-the-valley] O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hush'd and smooth! O unconfined Restraint! imprisoned liberty! great key To golden palaces. - Endymion (bk. I, l. 452) [Sleep] The poppies hung Dew-dabbed on their stalks. - Endymion (bk. I, l. 681) [Poppies] Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze most softly lulling to my soul. - Endymion (bk. I, l. 681) [Poppies] The vermeil rose had blown In frightful scarlet, and its thorns outgrown Like spiked aloe. - Endymion (bk. I, l. 694) [Roses] Who, of men, can tell That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell To melting pulp, that fish would have bright mail, The earth its dower of river, wood, and vale, The meadows runnels, runnels pebble-stones, The seed of its harvest, or the lute its tones, Tomes ravishment, or ravishment its sweet, If human souls did never kiss and greet? - Endymion (bk. I, l. 835) [Fish : Love] He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead. - Endymion (bk. II) [Immortality] Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers. - Endymion (bk. II) [Man] Above his head Four lily stalks did their white honours wed To make a coronal; and round him grew All tendrils green, of every bloom and hue, Together intertwined and trammell'd fresh; The vine of glossy sprout; the ivy mesh, Shading its Ethiop berries. - Endymion (bk. II, l. 413) [Flowers] O 'tis a very sin For one so weak to venture his poor verse In such a place as this. - Endymion (bk. III, l. 965) [Poets] O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May? - Endymion (bk. IV) [Sorrow] To Sorrow I bade good-morrow, And though to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me, and so kind. - Endymion (bk. IV) [Sorrow] Displaying page 2 of 5 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5
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