It always seems to me that the right sphere for Shelley's genius was the sphere of music, not of poetry.
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He Chaucer lacks the high seriousness of the great classics, and therewith an important part of their virtue.Matthew Arnold
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
Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go Soon will the high midsummer pomps come on.
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Thou waitest for the spark from heaven and we, Light half-believers in our casual deeds ... Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose tomorrow the ground won today Ah, do not we, Wanderer, await it too.
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Force and right are the governors of this world force till right is ready.
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Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
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