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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

5271 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:5271
AUTHOR:Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
QUOTATION:Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand,
By those deep sounds possessed with inward light,
Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey
Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Fancy in Nubibus.
 
Note 1.
And Iliad and Odyssey
Rose to the music of the sea.
Thalatta, p. 132. (From the German of Stolberg.) [back]