The Poems of Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC. S. Francis & Company, 1848 - 384 pages |
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... voice of Cona * never sounds so sweetly , as when it speaks of itself ; and I should almost suspect that man of an unkindly heart who could read the opening of the third book of the Paradise Lost without peculiar emotion . By a law of ...
... voice of Cona * never sounds so sweetly , as when it speaks of itself ; and I should almost suspect that man of an unkindly heart who could read the opening of the third book of the Paradise Lost without peculiar emotion . By a law of ...
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... Voice , as Seraph's song . Yet not your heavenly Beauty gives This heart with passion soft to glow ; Within your soul a Voice there lives ! It bids you hear the tale of Woe . When sinking low the Sufferer wan Beholds no hand outstretcht ...
... Voice , as Seraph's song . Yet not your heavenly Beauty gives This heart with passion soft to glow ; Within your soul a Voice there lives ! It bids you hear the tale of Woe . When sinking low the Sufferer wan Beholds no hand outstretcht ...
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... Voice , as Seraph's song . Yet not your heavenly Beauty gives This heart with passion soft to glow ; Within your soul a Voice there lives ! It bids you hear the tale of Woe . When sinking low the Sufferer wan Beholds no hand outstretcht ...
... Voice , as Seraph's song . Yet not your heavenly Beauty gives This heart with passion soft to glow ; Within your soul a Voice there lives ! It bids you hear the tale of Woe . When sinking low the Sufferer wan Beholds no hand outstretcht ...
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... voice to float , Lone whispering Pity in each soothing note ! Spirits of Love ! ye heard her name ! Obey The powerful spell , and to my haunt repair . Whether on clustering pinions ye are there , Where rich 32 JUVENILE POEMS .
... voice to float , Lone whispering Pity in each soothing note ! Spirits of Love ! ye heard her name ! Obey The powerful spell , and to my haunt repair . Whether on clustering pinions ye are there , Where rich 32 JUVENILE POEMS .
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... voice , those notes prolong , As sweet as when that voice with rapturous falls Shall wake the softened echoes of Heaven's Halls ! O ( have I sigh'd ) were mine the wizard's rod , Or mine the power of Proteus , changeful God ! A flower ...
... voice , those notes prolong , As sweet as when that voice with rapturous falls Shall wake the softened echoes of Heaven's Halls ! O ( have I sigh'd ) were mine the wizard's rod , Or mine the power of Proteus , changeful God ! A flower ...
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Page 172 - The Sun now rose upon the right: Out of the sea came he, Still hid in mist, and on the left Went down into the sea. "And the good south wind still blew behind, But no sweet bird did follow, Nor any day for food or play Came to the mariners
Page 164 - mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean...
Page 162 - The author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he has the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines...
Page xvii - Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
Page 175 - There passed a weary time. Each throat Was parched, and glazed each eye. A weary time! a weary time! How glazed each weary eye! When looking westward, I beheld A something in the sky. "At first it seemed a little speck, And then it seemed a mist; It moved and moved, and took at last A certain shape, I wist.
Page 147 - Joy, Lady! is the spirit and the power, Which wedding Nature to us gives in dower A new Earth and new Heaven...
Page 147 - O Lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth— And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
Page 174 - Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot : O Christ ! That ever this should be ! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.
Page 185 - The naked hulk alongside came, And the twain were casting dice; "The game is done! I've won! I've won!
Page 186 - There is not wind enough in the air To move away the ringlet curl From the lovely lady's cheek — 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.