John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (17721834) (continued)
5267 Nought cared this body for wind or weather When youth and I lived in t together.
Youth and Age.
5268 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.
5269 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.
5270 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.
5271 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.
5272 I counted two-and-seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks.
Cologne.
5273 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.
5274 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 Nights 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 ]