John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772–1834) (continued) |
| 5235 |
| Each matin bell, the Baron saith, Knells us back to a world of death. |
| Christabel. Part ii. |
| 5236 |
| Her face, oh call it fair, not pale! |
| Christabel. Part ii. |
| 5237 |
| Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy live in realms above; And life is thorny, and youth is vain, And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. |
| Christabel. Part ii. |
| 5238 |
| They stood aloof, the scars remaining,— Like cliffs which had been rent asunder: A dreary sea now flows between. |
| Christabel. Part ii. |
| 5239 |
| Perhaps ’t is pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm. |
| Christabel. Conclusion to Part ii. |
| 5240 |
| In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree, Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. |
| Kubla Khan. |
| 5241 |
| Ancestral voices prophesying war. |
| Kubla Khan. |
| 5242 |
| A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. |
| Kubla Khan. |
| 5243 |
| For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise. |
| Kubla Khan. |
| 5244 |
| Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there. |
| Epitaph on an Infant. |