Not the less does nature continue to fill the heart of youth with suggestions of his enthusiasm, and there are now men,--if indeed... I can speak in the plural number,--more exactly, I will say, I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible, that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest of sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But there, where I have garnered up my heart, Where either I must live or bear no life;... The fountain from the which my current runs Or else dries up: to be discarded thence, Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads To knot and gender in!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend... More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs, For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood;... And I dreamed my lost love came stealthily out of the wood With her cloud-pale eyelids falling on dream-dimmed eyes....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »