The Moon, how definite its orb!
Yet gaze again, and with a steady gaze
'Tis there indeed,but where is it not?
It is suffused o'er all the sapphire Heaven,
Trees, herbage, snake-like stream, unwrinkled Lake,
Whose very murmur does of it partake
And low and close the broad smooth mountain
Is more a thing of Heaven than when
Distinct by one dim shade and yet undivided from the universal cloud
In which it towers, finite in height.
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Poet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772–1834
POET’S REGION
England
SCHOOL / PERIOD
Romantic
Subjects
Nature,
Stars, Planets, Heavens,
Trees & Flowers,
Landscapes & Pastorals,
Seas, Rivers, & Streams
Poetic Terms
Imagery,
Pastoral
Samuel Taylor Coleridge is the premier poet-critic of modern English tradition, distinguished for the scope and influence of his thinking about literature as much as for his innovative verse. Active in the wake of the French Revolution as a dissenting pamphleteer and lay preacher, he inspired a brilliant generation of writers and attracted the patronage of progressive men of the rising middle class. As William Wordsworth’s . . .
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Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT
Nature,
Stars, Planets, Heavens,
Trees & Flowers,
Landscapes & Pastorals,
Seas, Rivers, & Streams
POET’S REGION
England
SCHOOL / PERIOD
Romantic
Poetic Terms
Imagery,
Pastoral
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