Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1806, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His own fair countenance, his kingly forehead Last Line: And saturate with the intellectual rays, it soften'd. | ||||||||
His own fair countenance, his kingly forehead His tender smiles, Love's day-dawn on his Lips That put on such heavenly spiritual light At the same moment in his steadfast eyes/ Were virtue's native crest, the innocent Soul's Unconscious meek Self-heraldry -- to man Genial, and pleasant to his guardian angel -- He suffered, nor complain'd; tho' oft, with tears, He mourn'd the oppression of his helpless Brethren, -- And sometimes with a deeper, holier grief Mourn'd for the oppressor: but that in Sabbath Hours -- a solemn grief, That like a Cloud at sunset, Was but the veil of inward meditation, Pierc'd thro' And saturate with the intellectual rays, it soften'd. | 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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