Robert Bridges, ed. (1844–1930). The Spirit of Man: An Anthology. 1916. | | | | From The Pang More Sharp Than All |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
| | | AH! 1 he is gone, and yet will not depart!— | |
| Is with me still, yet I from him exiled! | |
| For still there lives within my secret heart | |
| The magic image of the magic Child, | |
| Which there he made up-grow by his strong art, | 5 |
| As in that crystal orb—wise Merlin’s feat,— | |
| The wondrous ‘World of Glass’, wherein inisled | |
| All long’d for things their beings did repeat;— | |
| And there he left it, like a Sylph beguiled, | |
| To live and yearn and languish incomplete! | 10 |
| | | Note 1. Coleridge. From The Pang more sharp than all. An Allegory. St. IV. ‘Sibylline Leaves’. [back] | | |
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