Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Christabel

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Carv'd with figures strange and sweet,
All made out of the carver's brain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Perhaps 't is pretty to force together
Thoughts so all unlike each other;
To mutter and mock a broken charm,
To dally with wrong that does no harm.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is not wind enough to twirl
The one red leaf, the last of its clan,
That dances as often as dance it can,
Hanging so light, and hanging so high,
On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Saints will aid if men will call:
For the blue sky bends over all!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Her gentle limbs did she undress,
And lay down in her loveliness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A lady richly clad as she,
Beautiful exceedingly.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Tis a month before the month of May,
And the Spring comes slowly up this way.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Behold! her bosom and half her side—
A sight to dream of, not to tell!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Alas! they had been friends in youth;
But whispering tongues can poison truth,
And constancy lives in realms above;
And life is thorny; and youth is vain;
And to be wroth with one we love
Doth work like madness in the brain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Each matin bell, the Baron saith,
Knells us back to a world of death.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sir Leoline, the Baron rich,
Hath a toothless mastiff bitch.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
They stood aloof, the scars remaining,—
Like cliffs which had been rent asunder:
A dreary sea now flows between.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To be beloved is all I need,
And whom I love, I love indeed.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge