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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772–1834) (continued)

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Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare,
And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,
Possessing all things with intensest love,
O Liberty! my spirit felt thee there.

France. An Ode. v.

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Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place
(Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism,
Sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon,
Drops his blue-fring’d lids, and holds them close,
And hooting at the glorious sun in heaven
Cries out, “Where is it?”

Fears in Solitude.

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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin
Is pride that apes humility. 1

The Devil’s Thoughts.

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    All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
  All are but ministers of Love,
    And feed his sacred flame.

Love.

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Blest hour! it was a luxury—to be!

Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement.

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A charm
For thee, my gentle-hearted Charles, to whom
No sound is dissonant which tells of life.

This Lime-tree Bower my Prison.

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Hast thou a charm to stay the morning star
In his steep course?