The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, Volume 1W. Pickering, 1835 - English poetry |
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... smiling sate , and listened to thy lay ; Thy sister's shrieks she bade thee hear , And mark thy mother's thrilling tear ; See , see her breast's convulsive throe , Her silent agony of woe ! Ah ! dash the poisoned chalice from thy hand ...
... smiling sate , and listened to thy lay ; Thy sister's shrieks she bade thee hear , And mark thy mother's thrilling tear ; See , see her breast's convulsive throe , Her silent agony of woe ! Ah ! dash the poisoned chalice from thy hand ...
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... smiles the young - eyed Poesy All deftly masked , as hoar Antiquity . Alas , vain Phantasies ! the fleeting brood Of Woe self - solaced in her dreamy mood ! Yet will I love to follow the sweet dream , Where Susquehanna pours his untamed ...
... smiles the young - eyed Poesy All deftly masked , as hoar Antiquity . Alas , vain Phantasies ! the fleeting brood Of Woe self - solaced in her dreamy mood ! Yet will I love to follow the sweet dream , Where Susquehanna pours his untamed ...
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... smile ; In drizzly rains poppean dews O'er the tir'd inmates of the coach diffuse ; And when thou'st charm'd our eyes to rest Pillowing the chin upon the breast , Bid many a dream from thy dominions Wave its various - painted pinions ...
... smile ; In drizzly rains poppean dews O'er the tir'd inmates of the coach diffuse ; And when thou'st charm'd our eyes to rest Pillowing the chin upon the breast , Bid many a dream from thy dominions Wave its various - painted pinions ...
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... 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 pour the ...
... 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 pour the ...
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... smiles delights to tell Maternal hope , that her lov'd progeny In all but Sorrows shall Amelias be ! ON RECEIVING AN ACCOUNT THAT HIS ONLY SISTER'S DEATH WAS INEVITABLE . THE tear which mourn'd a brother's fate scarce dry— Pain after ...
... smiles delights to tell Maternal hope , that her lov'd progeny In all but Sorrows shall Amelias be ! ON RECEIVING AN ACCOUNT THAT HIS ONLY SISTER'S DEATH WAS INEVITABLE . THE tear which mourn'd a brother's fate scarce dry— Pain after ...
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Page 264 - 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 182 - Thou too, hoar Mount! with thy sky-pointing peaks, Oft from whose feet the avalanche, unheard, Shoots downward, glittering through the pure serene Into the depth of clouds, that veil thy breast— Thou too again, stupendous Mountain!
Page 214 - Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch Of mossy apple-tree, while the nigh thatch Smokes in the sun-thaw; whether the eave-drops fall. Heard only in the trances of the blast, Or if the secret ministry of frost Shall hang them up in silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet Moon, DEJECTION.
Page 107 - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
Page 181 - Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam? And who commanded (and the silence came), Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest?
Page 182 - God ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer ! and let the ice-plains echo, God...
Page 231 - Well! If the Bard was weather-wise, who made The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence, This night, so tranquil now, will not go hence Unroused by winds, that ply a busier trade Than those which mould yon cloud in lazy flakes, Or the dull sobbing draft, that moans and rakes Upon the strings of this ^olian lute, Which better far were mute.
Page 213 - Fill up the interspersed vacancies And momentary pauses of the thought ! My babe so beautiful ! it thrills my heart With tender gladness, thus to look at thee...
Page 262 - 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 ; if, that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort.
Page 144 - The music and the doleful tale, The rich and balmy eve ; And hopes, and fears that kindle hope, An undistinguishable throng, And gentle wishes long subdued, Subdued and cherished long...