Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Сэмюэл Тэйлор Кольридж)

Aplolgia Pro Vita Sua

The poet in his lone yet genial hour
Gives to his eyes a magnifying power:
Or rather he emancipates his eyes
From the black shapeless accidents of size--
In unctuous cones of kindling coal,
Or smoke upwreathing from the pipe's trim bole,
His gifted ken can see
Phantoms of sublimity. 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s other poems:

  1. Brockley Coomb
  2. Recollections of Love
  3. The Faded Flower
  4. Julia
  5. Limbo




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