The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One VolumeThomas, Cowperthwait & Company, 1840 - 546 pages |
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... leave , Like yon bright hues that paint the clouds of eve ! Tearful and saddening with the sadden'd blaze , Mine eye the gleam pursues with wistful gaze , Sees shades on shades with deeper tint impend , Till chill and damp the moonless ...
... leave , Like yon bright hues that paint the clouds of eve ! Tearful and saddening with the sadden'd blaze , Mine eye the gleam pursues with wistful gaze , Sees shades on shades with deeper tint impend , Till chill and damp the moonless ...
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... leave me with the matin hour , at most ! As night - closed Floweret to the orient ray , My sad heart will expand , when I the Maid survey . " But Love , who heard the silence of my thought , Contrived a too successful wile , I ween ...
... leave me with the matin hour , at most ! As night - closed Floweret to the orient ray , My sad heart will expand , when I the Maid survey . " But Love , who heard the silence of my thought , Contrived a too successful wile , I ween ...
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... LEAVE the lily on its stem ; O leave the rose upon the spray ; O leave the elder bloom , fair maids ! And listen to my lay . A cypress and a myrtle - bough This morn around my harp you twined Because it fashion'd mournfully Its murmurs ...
... LEAVE the lily on its stem ; O leave the rose upon the spray ; O leave the elder bloom , fair maids ! And listen to my lay . A cypress and a myrtle - bough This morn around my harp you twined Because it fashion'd mournfully Its murmurs ...
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... leaves A dying man he lay ; His dying words — but when I reach'd That tend'rest strain of all the ditty , My falt'ring ... leave my mind , If Lewti never will be kind . The little cloud - it floats away , Away it 39 SIBYLLINE LEAVES . 29 ...
... leaves A dying man he lay ; His dying words — but when I reach'd That tend'rest strain of all the ditty , My falt'ring ... leave my mind , If Lewti never will be kind . The little cloud - it floats away , Away it 39 SIBYLLINE LEAVES . 29 ...
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... leave my mind― And yet thou didst not look unkind . I saw a vapor in the sky , Thin , and white , and very high ; I ne'er beheld so thin a cloud : Perhaps the breezes that can fly Now below and now above , Have snatch'd aloft the lawny ...
... leave my mind― And yet thou didst not look unkind . I saw a vapor in the sky , Thin , and white , and very high ; I ne'er beheld so thin a cloud : Perhaps the breezes that can fly Now below and now above , Have snatch'd aloft the lawny ...
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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!