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Christabel
Christabel is a long narrative ballad by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in two parts. The first part was reputedly written in 1797, and the second in 1800. Coleridge planned three additional parts, but these were never completed. Coleridge prepared for the first two parts to be published in the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads, but on the advice of William Wordsworth it was left out; the exclusion of the poem, coupled with his inability to finish it, left Coleridge in doubt about his poetical power. It was published in a pamphlet in 1816, alongside Kubla Khan and The Pains of Sleep.
“And the spring comes slowly up this way.”
Part I
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Christabel
“Her gentle limbs did she undress,
And lay down in her loveliness.”
Part I, l. 237
Christabel (written 1797–1801, published 1816)
Part I, l. 48
Christabel (written 1797–1801, published 1816)
“Carv'd with figures strange and sweet,
All made out of the carver's brain.”
Part I
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Christabel
“Saints will aid if men will call:
For the blue sky bends over all!”
Part I, l. 330
Christabel (written 1797–1801, published 1816)
Part II, l. 408
Christabel (written 1797–1801, published 1816)
Part II
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Christabel
“Each matin bell, the Baron saith,
Knells us back to a world of death.”
Part II
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Christabel
“Her face, oh call it fair, not pale!”
Part II
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Christabel
“A lady richly clad as she,
Beautiful exceedingly.”
Part I
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Christabel
Conclusion to Part II
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Christabel
