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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772–1834) (continued)

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Nought cared this body for wind or weather
When youth and I lived in ’t together.

Youth and Age.

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Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

Youth and Age.

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    I have heard of reasons manifold
  Why Love must needs be blind,
But this the best of all I hold,—
  His eyes are in his mind. 1

To a Lady, Offended by a Sportive Observation.

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    What outward form and feature are
  He guesseth but in part;
But what within is good and fair
  He seeth with the heart.

To a Lady, Offended by a Sportive Observation.

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Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand,
By those deep sounds possessed with inward light,
Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey
Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. 2

Fancy in Nubibus.

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I counted two-and-seventy stenches,
All well defined, and several stinks.

Cologne.

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The river Rhine, it is well known,
Doth wash your city of Cologne;
But tell me, nymphs! what power divine
Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?

Cologne.

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Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows;
Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean.

The Homeric Hexameter. (Translated from Schiller.)

Note 1.
See Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Quotation 5. [back]

Note 2.
And Iliad and Odyssey
Rose to the music of the sea.
Thalatta, p. 132. (From the German of Stolberg.) [back]

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