The Works of Samuel Taylor ColeridgeCrissy & Markley, 1849 - 546 pages |
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... hand shall wreath thy mossy urn . For not through pathless grove with murmur rude Thou soothest the sad wood - nymph , Solitude ; Nor thine unseen in cavern depths to well , The Hermit - fountain of some dripping cell ! Pride of the ...
... hand shall wreath thy mossy urn . For not through pathless grove with murmur rude Thou soothest the sad wood - nymph , Solitude ; Nor thine unseen in cavern depths to well , The Hermit - fountain of some dripping cell ! Pride of the ...
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... hand the Alcman lyre . Red from the tyrant's wound I shook the lance , And strode in joy the reeking plains of France ! Fallen is the oppressor , friendless , ghastly , low , And my heart aches , though Mercy struck the blow . With ...
... hand the Alcman lyre . Red from the tyrant's wound I shook the lance , And strode in joy the reeking plains of France ! Fallen is the oppressor , friendless , ghastly , low , And my heart aches , though Mercy struck the blow . With ...
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... hand Strong as an host of armed Deities , Such as the blind Ionian fabled erst . From Avarice thus , from Luxury and War Sprang heavenly Science ; and from Freedom . Science Uer waken'd realms Philosophers and Bards Spread in concentric ...
... hand Strong as an host of armed Deities , Such as the blind Ionian fabled erst . From Avarice thus , from Luxury and War Sprang heavenly Science ; and from Freedom . Science Uer waken'd realms Philosophers and Bards Spread in concentric ...
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... hand plucks The heads of tall flowers that behind her grow , Lychnis , and willow - herb , and fox - glove bells : And suddenly , as one that toys with time , Scatters them on the pool ! Then all the charm Is broken - all that phantom ...
... hand plucks The heads of tall flowers that behind her grow , Lychnis , and willow - herb , and fox - glove bells : And suddenly , as one that toys with time , Scatters them on the pool ! Then all the charm Is broken - all that phantom ...
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... hand Held , as by Thetis erst her warrior Son : And with those recreant unbaptized heels Thou ' rt flying from thy bounden ministeries- So sore it seems and burthensome a task Of tides obedient to external force , And currents self ...
... hand Held , as by Thetis erst her warrior Son : And with those recreant unbaptized heels Thou ' rt flying from thy bounden ministeries- So sore it seems and burthensome a task Of tides obedient to external force , And currents self ...
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Page 64 - It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Page 300 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order; judgement ever awake and steady self-possession, with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement...
Page 65 - 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 70 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 62 - Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.
Page 373 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 66 - I bid thee say What manner of man art thou?" Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched With a woful agony, Which forced me to begin my tale; And then it left me free. Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.
Page 67 - There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Page 43 - Dear Babe, that sleepest cradled by my side, Whose gentle breathings, heard in this deep calm, Fill up the interspersed vacancies And momentary pauses of the thought...
Page 43 - ... mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe, shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags : so shalt thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy God Utters, who from eternity doth teach Himself in all, and all things in Himself.