The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One VolumeThomas, Cowperthwait & Company, 1840 - 546 pages |
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... live the innocent , as far from cares As from the storms and overwhelming waves Dark tumbling on the surface of the deep ) , Over the abysm , even to that uttermost cave By misshaped prodigies beleaguer'd , such As Earth ne'er bred ...
... live the innocent , as far from cares As from the storms and overwhelming waves Dark tumbling on the surface of the deep ) , Over the abysm , even to that uttermost cave By misshaped prodigies beleaguer'd , such As Earth ne'er bred ...
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... live . RECOLLECTIONS OF LOVE . How warm this woodland wild Recess ! Love surely hath been breathing here , And this sweet bed of heath , my dear ! Swells up , then sinks , with faint caress , As if to have you yet more near . Eight ...
... live . RECOLLECTIONS OF LOVE . How warm this woodland wild Recess ! Love surely hath been breathing here , And this sweet bed of heath , my dear ! Swells up , then sinks , with faint caress , As if to have you yet more near . Eight ...
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... live ! To me th ' Eternal Wisdom hath dispensed A different fortune and more different mind- Me from the spot where first I sprang to light Too soon transplanted , ere my soul had fix'd Its first domestic loves ; and hence through life ...
... live ! To me th ' Eternal Wisdom hath dispensed A different fortune and more different mind- Me from the spot where first I sprang to light Too soon transplanted , ere my soul had fix'd Its first domestic loves ; and hence through life ...
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... Live in the yellow light , ye distant groves ! And kindle , thou blue Ocean ! So my Friend , Struck with deep joy , may stand , as I have stood , Silent with swimming sense ; yea , gazing round On the wide landscape , gaze till all doth ...
... Live in the yellow light , ye distant groves ! And kindle , thou blue Ocean ! So my Friend , Struck with deep joy , may stand , as I have stood , Silent with swimming sense ; yea , gazing round On the wide landscape , gaze till all doth ...
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... live , Making it a companionable form , Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling Spirit By its own moods interprets , everywhere Echo or mirror seeking of itself , And makes a toy of Thought . But O ! how oft , How oft , at school , with ...
... live , Making it a companionable form , Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling Spirit By its own moods interprets , everywhere Echo or mirror seeking of itself , And makes a toy of Thought . But O ! how oft , How oft , at school , with ...
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Page 72 - The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.
Page 70 - And now the storm-blast came, and he Was tyrannous and strong : He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled.
Page 331 - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Page 75 - I never saw aught like to them, Unless perchance it were "Brown skeletons of leaves that lag My forest-brook along; When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, And the owlet whoops to the wolf below, That eats the she-wolf's young.
Page 76 - O sweeter than the marriage-feast, Tis sweeter far to me, To walk together to the kirk With a goodly company! — To walk together to the kirk, And all together pray, While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends, And youths and maidens gay!
Page 65 - Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air...
Page 46 - O struggling with the darkness all the night, And visited all night by troops of stars, Or when they climb the sky or when they sink...
Page 74 - Twas night, calm night, the Moon was high; The dead men stood together. All stood together on the deck, For a charnel-dungeon fitter: All fix'd on me their stony eyes, That in the Moon did glitter.
Page 75 - This seraph-band, each waved his hand: It was a heavenly sight! They stood as signals to the land, Each one a lovely light; This seraph-band, each waved his hand, No voice did they impart No voice; but oh! the silence sank Like music on my heart.
Page 72 - See! see! (I cried) she tacks no more! Hither to work us weal; Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel!