The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Appleton, 1857 - 388 pages |
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... stood smiling by ! — But cease , fond Heart ! this bootless moan : Those Hours on rapid Pinions flown Shall yet return , by Absence crowned , And scatter livelier roses round . The Sun who ne'er remits his fires On heedless eyes may ...
... stood smiling by ! — But cease , fond Heart ! this bootless moan : Those Hours on rapid Pinions flown Shall yet return , by Absence crowned , And scatter livelier roses round . The Sun who ne'er remits his fires On heedless eyes may ...
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... cold power : Already to thy lips was raised the bowl , When near thee stood Affection meek ( Her bosom bare , and wildly pale her cheek ) Thy sullen gaze she bade thee roll On scenes that 36 MONODY ON THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON .
... cold power : Already to thy lips was raised the bowl , When near thee stood Affection meek ( Her bosom bare , and wildly pale her cheek ) Thy sullen gaze she bade thee roll On scenes that 36 MONODY ON THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON .
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... stood motionless , their manes Hoar with the frozen night dews . Dismally The dark red dawn now glimmered ; but its gleams Disclosed no face of man . The maiden paused , Then hailed who might be near . No voice replied . From the thwart ...
... stood motionless , their manes Hoar with the frozen night dews . Dismally The dark red dawn now glimmered ; but its gleams Disclosed no face of man . The maiden paused , Then hailed who might be near . No voice replied . From the thwart ...
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... stood the healing God , When from his bow the arrow sped that slew Huge Python . Shriek'd Ambition's giant throng , And with them hissed the locust - fiends that crawled And glittered in Corruption's slimy track . Great was their wrath ...
... stood the healing God , When from his bow the arrow sped that slew Huge Python . Shriek'd Ambition's giant throng , And with them hissed the locust - fiends that crawled And glittered in Corruption's slimy track . Great was their wrath ...
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... stood still , And listens like a three year's child : The Mariner hath his will . * See Note . An ancient Mariner meet- eth three gal- lants bidden to a wedding- feast , and de- taineth one . The Wedding- Guest is spell- bound by the ...
... stood still , And listens like a three year's child : The Mariner hath his will . * See Note . An ancient Mariner meet- eth three gal- lants bidden to a wedding- feast , and de- taineth one . The Wedding- Guest is spell- bound by the ...
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Page 108 - twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute; And now it is an angel's song That makes the heavens be mute. " 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 116 - I pass, like night, from land to land ; I have strange power of speech ; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me : • To him my tale I teach.
Page 144 - In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
Page 199 - Few sorrows hath she of her own, My hope ! my joy ! my Genevieve ! She loves me best, whene'er I sing The songs that make her grieve.
Page 254 - Thy habitation from eternity. 0 dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought ! Entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the invisible alone. Yet, like some sweet beguiling melody, — So sweet we know not we are listening to it...
Page 254 - 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 112 - The rock shone bright, the kirk no less, That stands above the rock: The moonlight steeped in silentness The steady weathercock. And the bay was white with silent light, Till rising from the same, Full many shapes, that shadows were, In crimson colours came.
Page 94 - He holds him with his glittering eye — The wedding-guest stood still, And listens like a three-years' child : The Mariner hath his will. The wedding-guest sat on a stone : He cannot choose but hear ; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner : ' The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared, Merrily did we drop Below the kirk, below the hill, Below the lighthouse top. Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon ' — The wedding-guest here beat his breast, For he heard...
Page 115 - Laughed loud and long, and all the while His eyes went to and fro. "Ha! ha!" quoth he, "full plain I see, The Devil knows how to row." And now, all in my own countree, I stood on the firm land! The Hermit stepped forth from the boat, And scarcely he could stand. "O shrieve me, shrieve me, holy man!" The Hermit crossed his brow. "Say quick," quoth he, "I bid thee say— What manner of man art thou?
Page 284 - 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...