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"Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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"He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / The Ancient Mariner. Part i.
The Ancient Mariner. Part i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Red as a rose is she."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / The Ancient Mariner. Part i.
The Ancient Mariner. Part i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / The Ancient Mariner. Part ii.
The Ancient Mariner. Part ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / The Ancient Mariner. Part ii.
The Ancient Mariner. Part ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / The Ancient Mariner. Part iii.
The Ancient Mariner. Part iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"The nightmare Life-in-Death was she."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / The Ancient Mariner. Part iii.
The Ancient Mariner. Part iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / The Ancient Mariner. Part iii.
The Ancient Mariner. Part iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"And thou art long and lank and brown, As is the ribbed sea-sand."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / The Ancient Mariner. Part iv.
The Ancient Mariner. Part iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Alone, alone,--all, all alone; Alone on a wide, wide sea."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / The Ancient Mariner. Part iv.
The Ancient Mariner. Part iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / The Ancient Mariner. Part iv.
The Ancient Mariner. Part iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / The Ancient Mariner. Part iv.
The Ancient Mariner. Part iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / The Ancient Mariner. Part v.
The Ancient Mariner. Part v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / The Ancient Mariner. Part v.
The Ancient Mariner. Part v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head, Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / The Ancient Mariner. Part vi.
The Ancient Mariner. Part vi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"So lonely 't was, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / The Ancient Mariner. Part vii.
The Ancient Mariner. Part vii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / The Ancient Mariner. Part vii.
The Ancient Mariner. Part vii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / The Ancient Mariner. Part vii.
The Ancient Mariner. Part vii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / The Ancient Mariner. Part vii.
The Ancient Mariner. Part vii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"And the spring comes slowly up this way."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Christabel. Part i.
Christabel. Part i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"A lady richly clad as she, Beautiful exceedingly."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Christabel. Part i.
Christabel. Part i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Carv'd with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Christabel. Part i.
Christabel. Part i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Her gentle limbs did she undress, And lay down in her loveliness."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Christabel. Part i.
Christabel. Part i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"A sight to dream of, not to tell!"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Christabel. Part i.
Christabel. Part i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Christabel. Conclusion to part i.
Christabel. Conclusion to part i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Each matin bell, the Baron saith, Knells us back to a world of death."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Christabel. Part ii.
Christabel. Part ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Her face, oh call it fair, not pale!"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Christabel. Part ii.
Christabel. Part ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny, and youth is vain, And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Christabel. Part ii.
Christabel. Part ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"They stood aloof, the scars remaining,-- Like cliffs which had been rent asunder: A dreary sea now flows between."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Christabel. Part ii.
Christabel. Part ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Perhaps 't is pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Christabel. Conclusion to Part ii.
Christabel. Conclusion to Part ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree, Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Kubla Khan.
Kubla Khan.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Ancestral voices prophesying war."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Kubla Khan.
Kubla Khan.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Kubla Khan.
Kubla Khan.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Kubla Khan.
Kubla Khan.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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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 / Epitaph on an Infant.
Epitaph on an Infant.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"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."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / France. An Ode. v.
France. An Ode. v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, Sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, Drops his blue-fring'd lids, and holds them close, And hooting at the glorious sun in heaven Cries out, "Where is it?""
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Fears in Solitude.
Fears in Solitude.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / The Devil's Thoughts.
The Devil's Thoughts.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Love.
Love.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Blest hour! it was a luxury--to be!"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement.
Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"A charm For thee, my gentle-hearted Charles, to whom No sound is dissonant which tells of life."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / This Lime-tree Bower my Prison.
This Lime-tree Bower my Prison.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Hast thou a charm to stay the morning star In his steep course?"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni.
Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni.
Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Motionless torrents! silent cataracts!"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni.
Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Ye living flowers that skirt the eternal frost."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni.
Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Earth with her thousand voices praises God."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni.
Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Ode to Tranquillity.
Ode to Tranquillity.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Dejection. An Ode. Stanza 1.
Dejection. An Ode. Stanza 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Dejection. An Ode. Stanza 5.
Dejection. An Ode. Stanza 5.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / The Three Graves.
The Three Graves.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain