Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WHAT IS LIFE?, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE


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First Line: Resembles life what once was deemed of light
Last Line: A war-embrace of wrestling life and death?
Subject(s): Life


RESEMBLES life what once was deemed of light,
Too ample in itself for human sight?
An absolute self -- an element ungrounded --
All that we see, all colours of all shade
By encroach of darkness made? --
Is very life by consciousness unbounded?
And all the thoughts, pains, joys of mortal breath,
A war-embrace of wrestling life and death?





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