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Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867.

VI. To the Author of “The Robbers”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

SCHILLER! that hour I would have wished to die,

If through the shuddering midnight I had sent

From the dark dungeon of the tower time-rent

That fearful voice, a famished Father’s cry,

Lest in some after moment aught more mean

Might stamp me mortal! A triumphant shout

Black Horror screamed, and all her goblin rout

Diminished shrunk from the more withering scene!

Ah, bard tremendous in sublimity!

Could I behold thee in thy loftier mood

Wandering at eve with finely frenzied eye

Beneath some vast old tempest-swinging wood!

Awhile with mute awe gazing I would brood:

Then weep aloud in a wild ecstasy!