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Albatross Amid arms bard beautiful beneath bird black lips blossoms Bracy breast breath breeze bright bright eyes Charles Lamb cheek child Christ's Hospital Christabel cloud Coleridge dark dear deep doth dream EARL HENRY eyes fair fear flowers gazed gentle Geraldine green hark hast hath heard heart heave Heaven hope Jesus College KUBLA KHAN lady lady's land of mist Lewti light look loud Love's maid maiden mist Moon murmur ne'er Nether Stowey night o'er pain Poems pray quoth Roland de Vaux rose round S. T. COLERIDGE sails SANDOVAL shadow ship sigh silent sings Sir Leoline sleep soft song soul sound Southey spake spirit stars stood strange sunny sweet swelling tale tears thee thine thou thought trembles Twas vision voice weary Wedding-Guest ween wild WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE wind wings wood wooed youth
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Page 31 - 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 72 - By woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced...
Page 50 - And straight the Sun was flecked with bars, (Heaven's Mother send us grace !) As if through a dungeon-grate he peered, With broad and burning face. Alas ! (thought I, and my heart beat loud) How fast she nears and nears ! Are those her sails that glance in the Sun, Like restless...
Page 71 - I N 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. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Page 73 - 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, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware ! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair, Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Page 62 - Is this the hill ? is this the kirk ? Is this mine own countree ? We drifted o'er the harbour-bar, And I with sobs did pray — O let me be awake, my God 1 Or let me sleep alway.
Page 53 - I looked to heaven, and tried to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust.
Page 19 - The lady sank, belike through pain, And Christabel with might and main ; Lifted her up, a weary weight, f Over the threshold of the gate : Then the lady rose again, And moved, as she were not in pain. So free from danger, free from fear, They crossed the court : right glad they were. And Christabel devoutly cried, To the lady by her side, Praise we the Virgin all divine Who hath rescued thee from thy distress ! Alas, alas ! said Geraldine, I cannot speak for weariness.
Page 46 - 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 mariner's hollo!
Page 44 - Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon ' The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon. The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she; Nodding their heads before her goes The merry minstrelsy.