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• Ah me! the world is full of meetings such as this,--a thrill, a voiceless challenge and reply, and sudden partings after!

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  Challenges, Thrill, World

  Nathaniel Parker Willis, Alan Romanoff (1965). “Poets of the world: Nathaniel Willis”

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• T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.

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  Prayer, Heart, Dark

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• O, when the heart is, full, when bitter thoughts come crowding thickly up for utterance, and the poor common words of courtesy are such a very mockery, how much the bursting heart may pour itself in prayer!

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  Prayer, Heart, Utterance

  Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry Llewellyn Williams (1832). “Poems of Nathaniel Parker Willis ...”, p.36

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• A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.

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  Flirting, Liberty, Desire

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• The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.

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  Book, Rain, Clouds

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1829). “Fugitive Poetry”, p.21

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• The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.

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  Bows, Dresses, Quiet

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• I love to go and mingle with the young
  In the gay festal room--when every heart
  Is beating faster than the merry tune,
  And their blue eyes are restless, and their lips
  Parted with eager joy, and their round cheeks
  Flush'd with the beautiful motion of the dance.

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  Beautiful, Eye, Heart

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1856). “The poems, sacred, passionate, and humorous, of Nathaniel Parker Willis”, p.238

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• How beautiful it is for a man to die
  Upon the walls of Zion! to be called
  Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel,
  To put his armour off, and rest in heaven!

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  Beautiful, Death, Wall

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1868). “The Poems: Sacred, Passionate, and Humorous”, p.110

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• Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life.

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  Beautiful, Youth, Harness

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1860). “Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson”, p.232

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• Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins

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  Soul, Ruins, Sitting

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.171

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• The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.

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  Destiny, Men, Heaven

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.197

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• The position you hold and the work you are now doing.

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  Business, Position

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• Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.

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  Prejudice, Noblemen, Towns

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1860). “Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson”, p.198

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• The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for the angel capabilities, interrupted so soon with care, and with after life so sadly unfulfilled.

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  Children, Angel, Care

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1855). “Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson”, p.438

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• Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.

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  Maturity, Pineapples, Lows

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• The sin forgiven by Christ in HeavenBy man is cursed alway.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Men, Sin, Christ

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell (1850). “The works of the late Edgar Allan Poe”, p.32

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• But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!

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  Religion, Littles, Sin

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “The poetical works of N.P. Willis”, p.245

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• I'm weary of my lonely but
  And of its blasted tree,
  The very lake is like my lot,
  So silent constantly--
  I've liv'd amid the forest gloom
  Until I almost fear--
  When will the thrilling voices come
  My spirit thirsts to hear?

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  Country, Lonely, Voice

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• There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.

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  Happiness, Heart, Men

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• I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.

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  Soul, Poison, Sin

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• The perfect world, by Adam trod,
  Was the first temple--built by God--
  His fiat laid the corner stone,
  And heaved its pillars, one by one.

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  Perfect, World, Stones

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “The poetical works of N.P. Willis”, p.72

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• Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.

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  Mistake, Despair, Noble

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• The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.

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  Men, Blood, Ears

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• There is to me a daintiness about early flowers that touches me like poetry. They blow out with such a simple loveliness among the common herbs of pastures, and breathe their lives so unobtrusively, like hearts whose beatings are too gentle for the world.

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  Flower, Heart, Simple

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1829). “Fugitive Poetry”, p.62

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• If e'er I win a parting token,
  'Tis something that has lost its power--
  A chain that has been used and broken,
  A ruin'd glove, a faded flower;
  Something that makes my pleasure less,
  Something that means--forgetfulness.

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  Flower, Mean, Winning

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