Quotes from work

Dejection: An Ode

“A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud
Enveloping the earth.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dejection: An Ode

St. 4
Dejection: An Ode (1802)

“The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dejection: An Ode

St. 1
Dejection: An Ode (1802)

“Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud —
We in ourselves rejoice!
And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight,
All melodies the echoes of that voice,
All colours a suffusion from that light.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dejection: An Ode

St. 5
Dejection: An Ode (1802)

“O lady! we receive but what we give
And in our life alone does Nature live.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dejection: An Ode

St. 4
Dejection: An Ode (1802)

“Yon crescent Moon, as fixed as if it grew
In its own cloudless, starless lake of blue;
I see them all so excellently fair,
I see, not feel, how beautiful they are!”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dejection: An Ode

St. 2.
Dejection: An Ode (1802)