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Secular or Eclectic : Romantic

19th Century

About Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Timeline (1772 - 1834)

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Original Language
English

To Nature

Themes

Bliss

Garden

Honey

Lotus

Lover and Beloved

Recommended Books

	The Annotated Ancient Mariner , by Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Edited by Martin Gardner
	Coleridge's Writings: On the Sublime, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Edited by David Vallins
	The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Critical Biography, by Rosemary Ashton
	Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
	The Poetry of Coleridge (Audio Book), by Ralph Richardson

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It may indeed be phantasy, when I
Essay to draw from all created things
Deep, heartfelt, inward joy that closely clings ;
And trace in leaves and flowers that round me lie
Lessons of love and earnest piety.
So let it be ; and if the wide world rings
In mock of this belief, it brings
Nor fear, nor grief, nor vain perplexity.
So will I build my altar in the fields,
And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be,
And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields
Shall be the incense I will yield to Thee,
Thee only God ! and thou shalt not despise
Even me, the priest of this poor sacrifice

1820

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