Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VII. Descriptive: Narrative. 1904. | | | | Descriptive Poems: I. Personal: Great Writers | | Shakespeare | | Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) |
| | | THE SOUL of man is larger than the sky, | |
| Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark | |
| Of the unfathomed centre. Like that ark, | |
| Which in its sacred hold uplifted high, | |
| O’er the drowned hills, the human family, | 5 |
| And stock reserved of every living kind, | |
| So, in the compass of the single mind, | |
| The seeds and pregnant forms in essence lie, | |
| That make all worlds. Great poet, ’t was thy art | |
| To know thyself, and in thyself to be | 10 |
| Whate’er love, hate, ambition, destiny, | |
| Or the firm fatal purpose of the heart | |
| Can make of man. Yet thou wert still the same, | |
| Serene of thought, unhurt by thy own flame. | | | | |
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