Date: 1819
"'Well I can call to mind the managed air / 'That gave no comfort, that brought no despair, / 'That in a dubious balance held the mind, / 'To each side turning, never much inclined."
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Date: 1819
"'She kept a sort of balance in the mind, / 'And as his pole a dancer on the rope, / 'The equal poise on both sides kept me up."
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Date: 1819
"'Just at this time the balance of the mind / 'Is this or that way by the weights inclined; / 'In this scale beauty, wealth in that abides, / 'In dubious balance, till the last subsides;"
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Date: 1820
"She stood: he pass'd, shut up in mysteries, / His mind wrapp'd like his mantle."
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Date: 1820
Lovers may share the "inward fragrance of each other's heart"
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Date: 1820
"Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, / Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart / Made purple riot"
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Date: 1820
"As though a tongueless nightingale should swell / Her throat in vain, and die, heart -stifled, in her dell"
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Date: 1820
"How to entangle, trammel up and snare / Your soul in mine, and labyrinth you there / Like the hid scent in an unbudded rose?"
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Date: 1820
A soul may be "as ill at peace as the break-covert bloodhounds of such sin"
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