greykit.poetry — #1790s
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1798
[samuel-taylor-coleridge]
Frost at Midnight
Alone with his sleeping infant at midnight, Coleridge meditates on frost, childhood memory, and the life of open wonder he wishes for his son.
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1798
[william-wordsworth]
Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798
Revisiting the Wye valley after five years, Wordsworth traces how nature's forms have sustained him in absence and shaped his moral being, closing with a prayer for his sister Dorothy.
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1798
[samuel-taylor-coleridge]
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
A mariner shoots an albatross and is cursed to wander the earth, telling his tale of guilt, penance, and hard-won grace.
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1794
[william-blake]
The Tyger
A series of unanswerable questions addressed to the tiger — what immortal daring could have created so fearful and beautiful a creature?