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Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare, A little child in a manger. The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care, To men He was a stranger, The safety of the world was lying there, And the world's danger.


Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Talk of the devil, and his horns appear
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The moving moon went up to the sky, And nowhere did abide; Softly she was going up, And ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE "Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought! In nature there i...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in their best order.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess which will itself need ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet moon.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE For why drives on that ship so fast, Without or wave or wind? The air is cut away before, ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree; Where Alph, the sacred river ran, ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE O sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole! To Mary Queen the praise be given! ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wep...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, w...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kis...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to Heaven ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kis...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a bli...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman wor...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into t...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on <...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-i...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE O! lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone doth nature live; Ours is her wed...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks o...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Never, believe me, Appear the Immortals, Never alone.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE While many a glowworm in the shade Lights up her love torch.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
No...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man, ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or an...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagin...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Treading beneath their feet all visible things, As steps that upwards to their Father's throne ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Those holies of themselves a shape As of an arbor took.
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