Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on Suffering
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Poor little foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
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Beneath this sod A poet lies, or that which once seemed he - Oh, lift a thought in prayer for S.T.C! That he, who many a year, with toil of breath, Found death in life, may here find life in death.
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I bit my arm, I sucked the blood, And cried, A sail! a sail!
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Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.
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An orphan's curse would drag to Hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that Is a curse in a dead man's eye! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die.
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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.