"Wandering Kirghizzes, Who come on shaggy ponies from Pamere."

"Alas, is even Love too weak to unlock the heart and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one another …"

"as the vast tide Of the bright rocking Ocean sets to shore At the full moon."

"Who art thou then, that canst so touch my soul?"

"For a cloud Grew suddenly in Heaven, and darked the sun."

"No horse's cry was that, most like the roar Of some pain'd desert-lion, who all day Hath trail'd the hunter's javelin…"

"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and wisely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance."

"On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence."

"An unlopp’d trunk it was, and huge, Still rough; like those which men in treeless plains ... fish from the flooded ri…"

"And all the Persians knew him, and with shouts Hail’d; but the Tartars knew not who he was."