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Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?

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The groves were God's first temples.

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A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

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And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

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Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

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Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

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Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

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Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.

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Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: November 3rd, 1794

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