Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The Albatross did follow,
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To make the... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat
countries with spire steeples, whi... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Lovely was the death
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In the leafy month of June,
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And dreaming h... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE He saw a cottage with a double coach-house,
A cottage of gentility!
And the Devil did grin, fo... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 'Tis the merry nightingale
That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates
With fast thick warble h... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time,
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But whispering tongues can poison truth,
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But the tears of mournful eve! SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,
Whether the summer clothe the general earth
With... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A mother is a mother still,
The holiest thing alive. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE My eyes make pictures, when they are shut. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be! SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Her gentle limbs did she undress,
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And ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE "Most musical, most melancholy" bird!
A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!
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Without or wave or wind?
The air is cut away before,
... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred
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Where Alph, the sacred river ran,
... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE O sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole!
To Mary Queen the praise be given!
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Doth walk in fear and dread,
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Death came with friendly care;
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Ours is her wed... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks o... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Never, believe me,
Appear the Immortals,
Never alone. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE While many a glowworm in the shade
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And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man,
... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It sounds like stories from the land of spirits,
If any man obtain that which he merits,
Or an... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagin... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Treading beneath their feet all visible things,
As steps that upwards to their Father's throne
... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Those holies of themselves a shape
As of an arbor took. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Ah! replied my gentle fair,
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Scarce seemed there to be. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide, wide sea. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies
And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star
In his steep course? SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE And the spring comes slowly up this way. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Summer has set in with its usual severity. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers of... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is s... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry: the best words in the best order. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The bride hath paced into the hall, / Red as a rose is she. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: / At one stride comes the dark. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the br... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE He saw a cottage with a double coach house, A cottage of gentility; And the Devil did grin, for his ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with mus... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale -- my dreams become the substances of my life. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It was a miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice! SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A savage place! as holy and enchanted / As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted / By woman wailing... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman wor... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Knight's bones are dust, / And his good sword rust; - / His soul is with the saints, I trust. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weap... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the m... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The one red leaf, the last of its clan, / That dances as often as dance it can, / Hanging so light, ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the fi... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE No man does anything from a single motive SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, / And the owlet whoops to the wolf below. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discov... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE We were a ghastly crew. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea! SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It is an ancient mariner, / And he stoppeth one of three. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discov... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE