Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on Night
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About, about, in reel and rout The death fires danced at night.
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The Sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper, o'er the sea. Off shot the spectre-bark.
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The horned Moon, with one bright star Within the nether tip.
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The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.
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Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes.
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Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.