Author: Charles Kingsley
Cites
- William Wordsworth (2)
- IN: The Water Babies (2004) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
To her fair works did Nature link
The human soul that through me ran;
And much it grieved my heart to think
What man has made of man.
FROM: Lines Written in Early Spring, (1798), Poem, UK
- IN: The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby (1863) Satire, British
EPIGRAPH: "I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined;
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
"To her fair works did Nature link
The human soul that through me ran;
And much it grieved my heart to think,
What man has made of man."
FROM: Lines Written in Early Spring, (1798), Poem, UK
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1)
- IN: Glaucus, or, The Wonders of the Shore (1856) Non-Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Beyond the shadow of the ship
I watch'd the water-snakes:
They moved in tracks of shining white,
And when they rear'd, the elfish light
Fell off in hoary flakes.
***
O happy living things! no tongue
Their beauty might declare:
A spring of love gush'd from my heart,
And I bless'd them unaware.
FROM: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, (1797), Poem, UK