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Herbert, George. Jacula Prudentum, or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Microform. London: T. Garthwait, 1651.

There is in God, some say,
A deep but dazzling darkness.

Henry Vaughan

Silex Scintillans

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Vaughan, Henry. "The Night." Silex Scintillans. London: H. Blunden, 1655.

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Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The Crisis, June 1921, I. 1.

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Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, I. 1.

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Wordsworth, William. "Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. and A. Arch, 1798, I. 33.

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Wordsworth, William. "Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 33.

Death in itself is nothing, but we fear
To be we know not what, we know not where.

John Dryden

Aurenge-Zebe

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Dryden, John. Aureng-Zebe. King's Company, 1675, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

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Dryden, John. "Aureng-Zebe." The Works of John Dryden, edited by Vinton A. Dearing. Vol. 12, University of California Press, 1995, act 4, sc. 1.

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Blake, William. Poem written in his notebook. c. 1792.

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Blake, William. "If you trap the moment before its ripe." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 2, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 2.

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Arnold, Matthew, [published as A]. "Empedocles on Etna." Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1852, act 1, sc. 2.

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Arnold, Matthew. "Democracy." The Popular Education of France: With Notices of that of Holland and Switzerland. Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861.

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Arnold, Matthew. "Democracy." Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose. Penguin Classics, 2015.

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Auden, W. H. "Herman Melville." Another Time. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1940.

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Basho, Matsuo. おくのほそ道 [The Narrow Road to the Deep North]. Tokyo, 1702.

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Basho, Matsuo. "The Narrow Road to the Deep North." The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches, translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa. Penguin Classics, 1967.

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Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, 1599, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Julius Caesar." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

What did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?

Robert Hayden

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Hayden, Robert. "Those Winter Sundays." A Ballad of Remembrance. Paul Breman, 1962, I. 13.

The groves were God's first temples.

William Cullen Bryant

A Forest Hymn

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Bryant, William Cullen. "A Forest Hymn." United States Literary Gazette, 1824, I. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1599, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

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Hughes, Langston. “Dreams.” The World Tomorrow, May 1923, I. 1.

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Hughes, Langston. “Dreams.” The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on Art, Race, Politics, and World Affairs. Vol. 9, University of Missouri Press, 2001.

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Wordsworth, William. "Ode." Poems, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. st. 9.

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Wordsworth, William. "Ode ('There was a time')." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008, st. 9.

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Fitzgerald, Edward. Letter to James Russell Lowell. Oct. 1877.

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Hardy, Thomas. Notebook entry. 12 Feb. 1871.

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Hardy, Thomas. The Personal Notebooks of Thomas Hardy: with an Appendix Including the Unpublished Passages in the Original Typescripts of the Life of Thomas Hardy. Columbia University Press, 1979.

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Dickinson, Emily. "Much Madness Is Divinest Sense." Poems by Emily Dickinson. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890, I. 1.

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Dickinson, Emily. "Much Madness Is Divinest Sense." Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 1.