The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One VolumeThomas, Cowperthwait & Company, 1840 - 546 pages |
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... Fair , as the bosom of the swan That rises graceful o'er the wave , I've seen your breast with pity heave , And therefore love I you , sweet Genevieve ! SONNET . TO THE AUTUMNAL MOON . MILD Splendor of the various - vested Night ...
... Fair , as the bosom of the swan That rises graceful o'er the wave , I've seen your breast with pity heave , And therefore love I you , sweet Genevieve ! SONNET . TO THE AUTUMNAL MOON . MILD Splendor of the various - vested Night ...
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... fair promise of my spring ; That didst so fair disclose thy early bloom , Filling the wide air with a rich perfume ! For thee in vain all heavenly aspects smiled ; From the hard world brief respite could they win- The frost nipp'd sharp ...
... fair promise of my spring ; That didst so fair disclose thy early bloom , Filling the wide air with a rich perfume ! For thee in vain all heavenly aspects smiled ; From the hard world brief respite could they win- The frost nipp'd sharp ...
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... fair delights ! that o'er my soul On Memory's wing , like shadows fly ! Ah Flowers ! which Joy from Eden stole While Innocence stood smiling by ! - But cease , fond heart ! this bootless moan : Those hours on rapid pinions flown Shall ...
... fair delights ! that o'er my soul On Memory's wing , like shadows fly ! Ah Flowers ! which Joy from Eden stole While Innocence stood smiling by ! - But cease , fond heart ! this bootless moan : Those hours on rapid pinions flown Shall ...
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... fair Sigh in the loose luxuriance of her hair ; O heed the spell , and hither wing your way , Like far - off music , voyaging the breeze ! Spirits ! to you the infant Maid was given , Form'd by the wondrous alchemy of heaven ! No fairer ...
... fair Sigh in the loose luxuriance of her hair ; O heed the spell , and hither wing your way , Like far - off music , voyaging the breeze ! Spirits ! to you the infant Maid was given , Form'd by the wondrous alchemy of heaven ! No fairer ...
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... fair ! O graceful ! bid them prove As passive to the breath of Love . In tender accents , faint and low , Well - pleased I hear the whisper'd " No ! " The whisper'd “ No ” —how little meant ! Sweet falsehood that endears consent ! For ...
... fair ! O graceful ! bid them prove As passive to the breath of Love . In tender accents , faint and low , Well - pleased I hear the whisper'd " No ! " The whisper'd “ No ” —how little meant ! Sweet falsehood that endears consent ! For ...
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Page 72 - The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.
Page 70 - And now the storm-blast came, and he Was tyrannous and strong : He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled.
Page 331 - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Page 75 - 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 76 - O sweeter than the marriage-feast, Tis sweeter far to me, To walk together to the kirk With a goodly company! — To walk together to the kirk, And all together pray, While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends, And youths and maidens gay!
Page 65 - 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...
Page 46 - 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 74 - Twas night, calm night, the Moon was high; The dead men stood together. All stood together on the deck, For a charnel-dungeon fitter: All fix'd on me their stony eyes, That in the Moon did glitter.
Page 75 - This seraph-band, each waved his hand: It was a heavenly sight! They stood as signals to the land, Each one a lovely light; This seraph-band, each waved his hand, No voice did they impart No voice; but oh! the silence sank Like music on my heart.
Page 72 - See! see! (I cried) she tacks no more! Hither to work us weal; Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel!