The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, Volume 7Harper & brothers, 1868 |
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... hand ; and used my best efforts to tame the swell and glitter both of thought and diction . * This latter fault however had insinuated itself into my Religious Mu- sings with such intricacy of union , that sometimes I have omitted to ...
... hand ; and used my best efforts to tame the swell and glitter both of thought and diction . * This latter fault however had insinuated itself into my Religious Mu- sings with such intricacy of union , that sometimes I have omitted to ...
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... hand that loves to bless ; The clouds of sorrow at her presence flee ; Rejoice ! rejoice ! ye children of distress ! The beams that play around her head Thro ' want's dark vale their radiance spread : The young uncultur'd mind imbibes ...
... hand that loves to bless ; The clouds of sorrow at her presence flee ; Rejoice ! rejoice ! ye children of distress ! The beams that play around her head Thro ' want's dark vale their radiance spread : The young uncultur'd mind imbibes ...
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... hand , not a word he spoke , But with many a hem ! and a sturdy stroke , At length he brought down the poor Raven's own oak , His young ones were killed ; for they could not depart , And their mother did die of a broken heart . The ...
... hand , not a word he spoke , But with many a hem ! and a sturdy stroke , At length he brought down the poor Raven's own oak , His young ones were killed ; for they could not depart , And their mother did die of a broken heart . The ...
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... hand To the basis A. B , Unambitiously join'd in Equality's Band . But to the same powers , when two powers are equal My mind forebodes the sequel ; My mind does some celestial impulse teach , And equalizes each to each . Thus C. A with ...
... hand To the basis A. B , Unambitiously join'd in Equality's Band . But to the same powers , when two powers are equal My mind forebodes the sequel ; My mind does some celestial impulse teach , And equalizes each to each . Thus C. A with ...
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... hand ; Thus , with unhallow'd hands , O muse , aspire , And from my subject snatch a burning brand ! So like the Nose I sing - my verse shall glow- Like Phlegethon my verse in waves of fire shall flow ! * Empress of Russia . B * Light ...
... hand ; Thus , with unhallow'd hands , O muse , aspire , And from my subject snatch a burning brand ! So like the Nose I sing - my verse shall glow- Like Phlegethon my verse in waves of fire shall flow ! * Empress of Russia . B * Light ...
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Page 247 - 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 154 - Ye Ice-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — God ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer ! and let the ice-plains echo,...
Page 238 - They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. "Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Page 154 - Who called you forth from night and utter death, From dark and icy caverns called you forth, Down those precipitous, black, jagged rocks, For ever shattered and the same for ever?
Page 248 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small ; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Page 243 - All fixed on me their stony eyes, That in the moon did glitter. The pang, the curse, with which they died Had never passed away: I could not draw my eyes from theirs, Nor turn them up to pray.
Page 126 - ALL thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame.
Page 251 - 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.
Page 236 - Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea ! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.
Page 237 - The moving Moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide ; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside — "Her beams bemocked the sultry main, Like April hoar-frost spread ; But where the ship's huge shadow lay, The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful red.