Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry and we have Shakespeare.
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Gray, a born poet, fell upon an age of reason.Matthew Arnold
In his poetry as well as in his life Shelley was indeed 'a beautiful and ineffectual angel', beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.
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Children dear, was it yesterday (Call yet once) that she went away
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Not that your age excel
In pride of life the ages of your sires,
But that you think clear, feel deep, bear fruit well,
The Friend of man desires.
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With hope extinct and brow composed
I mark'd the present die;
Its term of life was nearly closed,
Yet it had more than I.
Matthew Arnold
Time may restore us in his course Goethes sage mind and Byrons force But where will Europes latter hour Again find Wordsworths healing power.
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