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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Henry Hart Milman. (1791–1868)
 
5840
    And the cold marble leapt to life a god.
          The Belvedere Apollo.
5841
    Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
          The Belvedere Apollo.
 
Charles Sprague. (1791–1875)
 
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    Lo where the stage, the poor, degraded stage,
Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age.
          Curiosity.
5843
    Through life’s dark road his sordid way he wends,
An incarnation of fat dividends.
          Curiosity.
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    Behold! in Liberty’s unclouded blaze
We lift our heads, a race of other days.
          Centennial Ode. Stanza 22.
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    Yes, social friend, I love thee well,
  In learned doctors’ spite;
Thy clouds all other clouds dispel,
  And lap me in delight.
          To my Cigar.
 
Percy Bysshe Shelley. (1792–1822)
 
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    Then black despair,
The shadow of a starless night, was thrown
Over the world in which I moved alone.
          The Revolt of Islam. Dedication, Stanza 6.
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    With hue like that when some great painter dips
His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.
          The Revolt of Islam. Canto v. Stanza 23.
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    The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Floats, tho’ unseen, amongst us.
          Hymn to Intellectual Beauty.