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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DUTY SURVIVING SELF-LOVE; THE ONLY SURE FRIEND OF DECLINING LIFE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unchanged within to see all changed without Last Line: Because to thee they are not what they were. Subject(s): Change; Tolerance | |||
(A SOLILOQUY) UNCHANGED within, to see all changed without, Is a blank lot and hard to bear, no doubt. Yet why at others' wanings should'st thou fret? Then only might'st thou feel a just regret, Hadst thou withheld thy love or hid thy light In selfish forethought of neglect and slight. O wiselier then, from feeble yearnings freed, While, and on whom, thou may'st -- shine on! nor heed Whether the object by reflected light Return thy radiance or absorb it quite: And though thou notest from thy safe recess Old Friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air, Love them for what they are; nor love them less, Because to thee they are not what they were. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PLEA FOR TOLERANCE by MARGARET E. BRUNER ONE OF US by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY SONNET: OF MODERATION AND TOLERANCE by GUIDO GUINIZELLI TO POETS by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR THE COMPANIONABLE ILLS by SYLVIA PLATH A MESSAGE TO AMERICA by ALAN SEEGER AMONG THE WORST OF MEN THAT EVER LIVED by HENRY DAVID THOREAU THE CHILDREN'S WAY by KATHARINE TYNAN RIDE TO THE WEDDING by PHEBUS ETIENNE A CHILD'S EVENING PRAYER by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A DAY DREAM by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY A VIEW, OF SADDLEBACK IN CUMBERLAND by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
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