Date: 1798
"Methinks, its [a fluttering "film"] motion in this hush of nature / Gives it dim sympathies with me who live, / Making it a companionable form, / Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling Spirit / By its own moods interprets, every where / Echo or mirror seeking of itself, / And makes a toy of Thou...
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Date: February, 1798
"And what (I said) tho' blasphemy's loud scream / With that sweet music of deliv'rance strove; / Tho' all the fierce and drunken passions wove / A dance more wild than ever maniac's dream; / Ye storms, that round the dawning east assembled, / The sun was rising, tho' ye hid his light!"
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Date: October 4, 1802
"I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within."
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Date: October 4, 1802
"Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth / A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud / Enveloping the Earth--"
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Date: October 4, 1802
"O pure of heart! thou need'st not ask of me / What this strong music in the soul may be!"
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Date: October 4, 1802
"Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, / Reality's dark dream! / I turn from you, and listen to the wind, / Which long has raved unnoticed."
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Date: 1800-1803
"And these are the gems of the Human Soul"
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Date: 1800-1803
"The countless gold of the akeing heart"
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Date: 1803
"[W]rithing Mania sits on Reason's throne, /Or Melancholy marks it for her own"
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Date: 1803
"Reason's empire o'er the world presides, / And man from brute, and man from man divides"
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