Poems

Human Life If dead, we cease to be ; if total gloom Swallow up life’s brief flash for aye, we fare As summer-gusts, of sudden birth […]

Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course? So long he seems to pause […]

I know ’tis but a Dream, yet feel more anguish (fragment) I know ’tis but a Dream, yet feel more anguish Than if ’twere Truth. It […]

Inscription For A Fountain On A Heath This Sycamore, oft musical with bees,– Such tents the Patriarchs loved ! O long unharmed May all its agéd […]

Kubla Khan In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a […]

Life As late I journey’d o’er the extensive plain Where native Otter sports his scanty stream, Musing in torpid woe a Sister’s pain, The glorious prospect […]

Limbo The sole true Something–This ! In Limbo Den It frightens Ghosts as Ghosts here frighten men– For skimming in the wake it mock’d the care […]

Lines Composed while climbing the left ascent of Brockley Coomb, Somersetshire, May 1795 With many a pause and oft reverted eye I climb the Coomb’s ascent: […]

Love All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my […]

Love’s Apparition and Evanishment: An Allegoric Romance Like a lone Arab, old and blind, Some caravan had left behind, Who sits beside a ruin’d well, Where […]