Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume V. Nature. 1904. | | | | II. Light: Day: Night | | Fancy in Nubibus | | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
| | | O, IT is pleasant, with a heart at ease, | |
| Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, | |
| To make the shifting clouds be what you please, | |
| Or let the easily persuaded eyes | |
| Own each quaint likeness issuing from the mould | 5 |
| Of a friend’s fancy; or, with head bent low, | |
| And cheek aslant, see rivers flow of gold, | |
| ’Twixt crimson banks; and then a traveller go | |
| From mount to mount, through Cloudland, gorgeous land! | |
| Or, listening to the tide with closèd sight. | 10 |
| 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. | | | | |
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