Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - MAY 1810, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have experience'd / the worst, the world can wreak on me; the worst Last Line: That ties me to myself -- and break I shall! -- | ||||||||
I have experienc'd The worst, the World can wreak on me; the worst That can make Life indifferent, yet disturb With whisper'd Discontents the dying prayer. I have beheld the whole of all, wherein My Heart had any interest in this Life, To be disrent and torn from off my Hopes That nothing now is left. Why then live on? That Hostage, which the world had in it's keeping Given by me as a Pledge that I would live, That Hope of Her, say rather, that pure Faith In her fix'd Love, which held me to keep truce With the Tyranny of Life -- is gone ah whither? What boots it to reply? -- 'tis gone! and now Well may I break this Pact, this League of Blood That ties me to myself -- and break I shall! -- | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A DAY DREAM by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY A VIEW, OF SADDLEBACK IN CUMBERLAND by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE AN INVOCATION; SONG, FR. REMORSE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE AN ODE TO THE RAIN by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE ANSWER TO A CHILD'S QUESTION by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE COLOGNE; EPIGRAM by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE DEJECTION: AN ODE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE DUTY SURVIVING SELF-LOVE; THE ONLY SURE FRIEND OF DECLINING LIFE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE EPITAPH ON HIMSELF by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE FANCY IN NUBIBUS; OR, THE POET IN THE CLOUDS by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
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