"WITH A WILD PLEASURE, FALLING ON MINE EAR-(S. T. COLERIDGE) 134 SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. You see the glimmer of the stream beneath, A balmy night! And though the stars be dim, "SO SHALT THOU SEE AND HEAR THE LOVELY SHAPES AND SOUNDS INTELLIGIBLE OF THAT ETERNAL LANGUAGE WHICH THY GOD UTTERS!"-SAMUEL T. COLERIDGE. ["Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell.") And, hark! the Nightingale begins its song, But some night-wandering man whose heart was pierced * "Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy." MILTON, Il Penseroso. MOST LIKE ARTICULATE SOUNDS OF THINGS TO COME!". COLERIDGE. "LIFE'S CURRENT THEN RAN SPARKLING TO THE NOON, OR SILVERY STOLE BENEATH THE PENSIVE MOON ;-(S. T. COLERIDGE) 'GREAT UNIVERSAL TEACHER! HE SHALL MOULD (COLERIDGE) Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch! filled all things with himself, First named these notes a melancholy strain. Poet who hath been building up the rhyme Of shapes and sounds and shifting elements [From "The Nightingale: a Conversation Poem," 1798.] AH, NOW IT WORKS RUDE BRAKES AND THORNS AMONG, OR O'ER THE ROUGH ROCK BURSTS AND FOAMS ALONG."-COLERIDGE. THY SPIRIT, AND BY GIVING MAKE IT ASK."-s. T. COLERidge. "YEA, EVERYTHING THAT IS, AND WILL BE FREE! BEAR WITNESS FOR ME, WHERESO'ER YE BE,-(COLERIDGE) 66 136 SO FOR THE MOTHER'S SAKE THE CHILD WAS DEAR,-(Coleridge) SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. Like those trim skiffs, unknown of yore, That fear no spite of wind or tide! Nought cared this body for wind or weather Flowers are lovely; Love is flower-like ; Oh, the joys, that came down shower-like, Ere I was old. Ere I was old ?—Ah, woful Ere! Dew-drops are the gems of morning, When we are old: With oft and tedious taking-leave, AND DEARER WAS THE MOTHER FOR THE CHILD."-S. T. COLERIDGE. WITH WHAT DEEP WORSHIP I HAVE STILL ADORED THE SPIRIT OF DIVINEST LIBERTY!"-S. T. COLERIDGE. 66 STOP, CHRISTIAN PASSER-BY! STOP, CHILD OF GOD! LOVE, HOPE, AND PATIENCE IN EDUCATION. 137 Like some poor nigh-related guest, And tells the jest without the smile. ["Youth and Age," written just before Coleridge left the Lakes, "with a strangely aged tone for a man of only seven or eight and thirty, has," says Professor Shairp, "a quaint beauty; to adopt its own words, it is like sadness, that 'tells the jest without the smile.""] A PORT LIES, OR THAT WHICH ONCE SEEMED HE. OH, LIFT A THOUGHT IN PRAYER FOR S. T. C.-(SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE) LOVE, HOPE, AND PATIENCE IN EDUCATION. ER wayward childhood would'st thou hold firm rule, And sun thee in the light of happy faces; OS Love, Hope, and Patience, these must be thy graces, But Love is subtle and doth proof derive AND READ WITH GENTLE BREAST: BENEATH THIS SOD THAT HE, WHO MANY A YEAR, WITH TOIL OF BREATH, FOUND DEATH IN LIFE, MAY HERE FIND LIFE IN DEATH!"-COLERIDGE. 138 "RAGE HAS WEAPONS ALWAYS NIGH."-CONINGTON'S VIRGIL. PROFESSOR CONINGTON. Both Love and Hope beneath the load give way. [From Coleridge's "Miscellaneous Poetical Works."] "COMRADES AND FRIENDS, OURS IS THE STRENGTH HAS BROOKED THE TEST OF WOES."--CONINGTON'S VIRGIL.. Professor Conington. [DRYDEN's translation of Virgil has at length found a dangerous rival in After all, Professor Conington's version is "full of taste, and has passages THE LAST DAYS OF TROY. [Aeneas relates to Dido, Queen of Carthage, the principal events that marked the last days of Troy, when beleaguered by the Greeks, who, after a ten years' siege, succeeded in capturing it by a cunning stratagem. They constructed a wooden horse, filled its interior with armed men, and pretending to retreat, left it exposed to the gaze of the Trojans. These, "CAN AUGHT BEGUILE LOVE'S WATCHFUL EYE?"-IBID. "O WORSE-SCARRED HEARTS! THESE WOUNDS AT LENGTH THE GODS WILL HEAL."-CONINGTON'S VIRGIL. |