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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) first seen 1794 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epitaph on an Infant", l. 1 (1794)
“Poor little foal of an oppressèd race! I love the languid patience of thy face.”
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Recorded in: To a Young Ass", l. 1 (1794)
“Blest hour! it was a luxury — to be!”
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Recorded in: Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement", l. 43 (1795)
“O! the one Life, within us and abroad, Which meets all Motion, and becomes its soul, A Light in Sound, a sound-like power in Light, Rhythm in all Thought, and Joyance every where.”
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Recorded in: The Eolian Harp", st. 2 (wr. 1795; pub. 1796)
“And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversly fram'd, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of All?”
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Recorded in: The Eolian Harp", st. 3 (wr. 1795; pub. 1796)
“O! I do love thee, meek Simplicity!”
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Recorded in: To Simplicity", l. 1 (1796)
“And this reft house is that the which he built, Lamented Jack!”
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Recorded in: On a Ruined House in a Romantic Country", l. 1 (1796)
“So for the mother’s sake the child was dear, And dearer was the mother for the child.”
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Recorded in: Sonnet to a Friend Who Asked How I Felt When the Nurse First Presented My Infant to Me" (1797)
“Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought! In nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night-wandering man, whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch! filled all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain.”
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Recorded in: The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem, ll. 13-22 (1798)
“Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky! Yea! every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, whereso'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.”
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Recorded in: France: An Ode", st. 1 (1798)
“Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare, And shot my being through earth, sea, and air, Possessing all things with intensest love, O Liberty! my spirit felt thee there.”
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Recorded in: France: An Ode", st. 5 (1798)
“The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind.”
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Recorded in: Frost at Midnight", l. 1 (1798)
“Sea, and hill, and wood, With all the numberless goings-on of life, Inaudible as dreams!”
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Recorded in: Frost at Midnight", l. 11 (1798)
“Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing.”
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Recorded in: Frost at Midnight", l. 15 (1798)
“Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreasts sit and sing Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch Of mossy apple-tree, while all the thatch Smokes in the sun-thaw: whether the eave-drops fall Heard only in the trances of the blast, Or 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.”
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Recorded in: Frost at Midnight", l. 70 (1798)
“Forth from his dark and lonely hiding place (Portentous-sight!) the owlet Atheism, Sailing an obscene wings athwart the noon, Drops his blue-fringèd lids, and holds them close, And hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, Cries out, "Where is it?”
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Recorded in: Fears in Solitude", l. 81 (1798)
“‘Alas!’ said she, ‘we ne’er can be Made happy by compulsion.’”
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Recorded in: The Three Graves, pt. 4, st. 12 (1798)
“Lingering he raised his latch at eve, Though tired in heart and limb: He loved no other place, and yet Home was no home to him.”
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Recorded in: The Three Graves, pt. 4, st. 16 (1798)
“From his brimstone bed at break of day, A walking the Devil is gone, To look at his snug little farm the earth, And see how his stock goes on.”
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Recorded in: The Devil's Thoughts", st. 1 (1799)
“And backward and forward he switched his long tail As a gentleman switches his cane.”
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Recorded in: The Devil's Thoughts", st. 2 (1799)
“His jacket was red and his breeches were blue, And there was a hole where the tail came through.”
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Recorded in: The Devil's Thoughts", st. 3 (1799)
“He saw a Lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel.”
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Recorded in: The Devil's Thoughts", st. 4 (1799)
“He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility; And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.”
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Recorded in: The Devil's Thoughts", st. 6 (1799)
“As he went through Cold-Bath Fields he saw A solitary cell; And the Devil was pleased, for it gave him a hint For improving his prisons in Hell.”
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Recorded in: The Devil's Thoughts", st. 9 (1799)
“Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows, Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean.”
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Recorded in: The Homeric Hexameter" (translated from Schiller) (c. 1799)
“In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.”
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Recorded in: The Ovidian Elegiac Metre" (translated from Schiller) (c. 1799)
“All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame.”
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Recorded in: Love", st. 1 (c. 1799)
“Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn.”
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Recorded in: A Christmas Carol", st. viii (1799)
“Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, This lime-tree bower my prison!”
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Recorded in: This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison", st. 1 (1800)
“When the last rook Beat its straight path along the dusky air”
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Recorded in: This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison", st. 3 (1800)
“A charm For thee, my gentle-hearted Charles, to whom No sound is dissonant which tells of life.”
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Recorded in: This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison", st. 3 (1800)
“Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame!”
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Recorded in: Ode to Tranquillity", st. 1 (1801)
“Aloof with hermit-eye I scan The present works of present man — A wild and dreamlike trade of blood and guile, Too foolish for a tear, too wicked for a smile!”
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Recorded in: Ode to Tranquillity", st. 4 (1801)
“But the Lark is so brimful of gladness and love, The green fields below him, the blue sky above, That he sings, and he sings; and for ever sings he— 'I love my Love, and my Love loves me!'”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) first seen 1802 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Answer to a Child's Question", l. 7 (1802)
“What is an Epigram? a dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul.”
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Recorded in: What is an Epigram?", in The Morning Post (23 September 1802)
“I could not know, Whether I suffered, or I did: For all seemed guilt, remorse or woe, My own or others still the same Life-stifling fear, soul-stifling shame!”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) first seen 1803 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Pains of Sleep", st. 2 (wr. 1803; pub. 1816)
“Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) first seen 1806 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Metrical Feet" (1806)
“Iambics march from short to long;— With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng.”
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Recorded in: Metrical Feet" (1806)
“And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within.”
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Recorded in: The Presence of Love" (1807), ll 1–4
“And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you, How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.”
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Recorded in: The Presence of Love" (1807), ll. 10–11
“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.What outward form and feature are He guesseth but in part; But what within is good and fair He seeth with the heart.”
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Recorded in: To a Lady, Offended by a Sportive Observation That Women Have No Souls", sts. 2–3 (1812)
“I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered.”
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Recorded in: Remorse (1813), act IV, sc. iii
“The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors.”
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Recorded in: The Statesman's Manual (1816) p. 35
“The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust; His soul is with the saints, I trust.”
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Recorded in: The Knight's Tomb", l. 9 (c. 1817)
“Never, believe me, Appear the Immortals, Never alone.”
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Recorded in: The Visit of the Gods" (Imitated from Schiller), l. 1 (1817)
“To know, to esteem, to love—and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart!”
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Recorded in: On taking Leave of ————", l. 1 (1817)
“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.”
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Recorded in: Fancy in Nubibus", l. 11 (1818)
“With Donne, whose muse on dromedary trots, Wreathe iron pokers into true-love knots; Rhyme's sturdy cripple, fancy's maze and clue, Wit's forge and fire-blast, meaning's press and screw.”
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Recorded in: On Donne's Poetry" (c. 1818)
“The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) first seen 1823 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Reproof and Reply" (1823); the eighth commandment is "Thou shalt not steal".
“Verse, a Breeze 'mid blossoms straying, Where clung feeding, like a bee— Both were mine! Life went a-maying With , , and , When I was young!”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) first seen 1823 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Youth and Age", st. 1 (1823–1832)