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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Good, Great Man

"How seldom, friend! a good great man inherits
Honour or wealth with all his worth and pains!
It sounds like stories from the land of spirits
If any man obtain that which he merits
Or any merit that which he obtains."

Reply to the above

 
For shame, dear friend, renounce this canting strain!
What would’st thou have a good great man obtain?
Place? titles? salary? a gilded chain?
Or throne of corses which his sword had slain?
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends!
Hath he not always treasures, always friends,
The good great man? three treasures, LOVE, and LIGHT,
     And CALM THOUGHTS, regular as infant’s breath:
And three firm friends, more sure than day and night,
     HIMSELF, his MAKER, and the ANGEL DEATH!

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To a Lady, With Falconer’s 'shipwreck’

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To a Young Ass, Its Mother Being Tethered Near It

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834). Part V

Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole! To Mary Queen the praise be given… She sent the gentle sleep from He… That slid into my soul.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834). Part IV

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