John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5271 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 5271 |
| AUTHOR: | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
| QUOTATION: | Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Fancy in Nubibus. |
| Note 1. And Iliad and Odyssey Rose to the music of the sea. Thalatta, p. 132. (From the German of Stolberg.) [back] |