Date: 1848
We may like on our fled soul, like a "mother wild" on an "infant child" in an "eagle's claws"
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Date: 1848
"O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake, / Would all their colours from the sunset take: / From something of material sublime, / Rather than shadow our own soul's day-time / In the dark void of night."
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Date: 1848
" Yet can I think of thee till thought is blind."
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Date: 1848
"I cannot see, / Fancy is dead and drunken at its goal"
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Date: 1848
"When I have fears that I may cease to be / Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain [...] "
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Date: 1850
Imagination is "reason in her most exalted mood"
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Date: 1850
"This faculty [Imagination/Reason] hath been the feeding source / Of our long labour: we have traced the stream / From the blind cavern whence is faintly heard /Its natal murmur; followed it to light / And open day"
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Date: 1850
"My own voice cheered me, and, far more, the mind's / Internal echo of the imperfect sound; / To both I listened, drawing from them both / A cheerful confidence in things to come"
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Date: 1850
The poet's mind is "best pleased / While she as duteous as the mother dove / Sits brooding, lives not always to that end, / But like the innocent bird, hath goadings on/ That drive her as in trouble through the groves."
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Date: 1850
"I neither seem / To lack that first great gift, the vital soul, / Nor general Truths, which are themselves a sort / Of Elements and Agents, Under-powers, / Subordinate helpers of the living mind"
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