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

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772–1834) (continued)
 
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    Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.
          The Ancient Mariner. Part v.
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    A noise like of a hidden brook
In the leafy month of June,
That to the sleeping woods all night
Singeth a quiet tune.
          The Ancient Mariner. Part v.
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    Like one that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head,
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
          The Ancient Mariner. Part vi.
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    So lonely ’t was, that God himself
Scarce seemed there to be.
          The Ancient Mariner. Part vii.
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    He prayeth well who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
          The Ancient Mariner. Part vii.
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    He prayeth best who loveth best
All things both great and small.
          The Ancient Mariner. Part vii.
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    A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.
          The Ancient Mariner. Part vii.
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    And the spring comes slowly up this way.
          Christabel. Part i.
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    A lady richly clad as she,
Beautiful exceedingly.
          Christabel. Part i.
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    Carv’d with figures strange and sweet,
All made out of the carver’s brain.
          Christabel. Part i.
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    Her gentle limbs did she undress,
And lay down in her loveliness.
          Christabel. Part i.
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    A sight to dream of, not to tell!
          Christabel. Part i.
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    That saints will aid if men will call;
For the blue sky bends over all!
          Christabel. Conclusion to part i.