I consider poetry very subordi...

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

Poets are the hierophants of a...

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Power, like a desolating pesti...

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

A God made by man undoubtedly ...

A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

And priests dare babble of a G...

And priests dare babble of a God of peace,
Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood,
Murdering the while, uprooting every germ
Of truth, exterminating, spoiling all,
Making the earth a slaughter - house!

Design must be proved before a...

Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.

Whatever strengthens and purif...

Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.

Man's yesterday may never be l...

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

I have been a wanderer among d...

I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.

The odious and disgusting aris...

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

This lake exceeds anything I e...

This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.

And Spring arose on the garden...

And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.

Peter was dull; he was at firs...

Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed - Still with his dulness was he cursed - Dull -beyond all conception - dull.

If God has spoken, why is the ...

If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

It is easier to suppose that t...

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

Of Planets, struggling fierce ...

Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.

Duty and dereliction guide the...

Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.

... a wild dissolving bliss

... a wild dissolving bliss
Over my frame he breathed, approaching near,
And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness
Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss

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Nothing of him that doth fade ...

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

When a man marries, dies, or t...

When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.