The heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these,
Because my love is come to me.

- Christina Rossetti
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Thy soul shall find itself alone
’Mid dark thoughts of the grey tomb-stone—
Not one, of all the crowd, to pry
Into thine hour of secrecy:

Be silent in that solitude,
Which is not loneliness—for then
The spirits of the dead who stood
In life before thee are again

In death around thee—and their will
Shall overshadow thee: be still.

"The Coliseum" by Edgar Allan Poe
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"And miles around me, though I saw
Bird, beast, bird, butterfly or bee
From that day forth I nothing saw.
To any other sight than thee."

- John Keats
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