greykit.poetry — #meditation

• 1849 [edgar-allan-poe] The Bells
  Poems (1849)

  Four movements in sound — silver sleigh-bells, golden wedding-bells, brazen alarm-bells, iron tolling-bells — rising from merriment through alarm to the Ghouls' runic rhyme and the moaning and the groaning of the bells.

  #lyric#sound#onomatopoeia#meditation#1840s
• 1802 [samuel-taylor-coleridge] Dejection: An Ode
  Sibylline Leaves

  Wrestling with creative paralysis and emotional deadness, Coleridge addresses an unnamed Lady, lamenting that joy must come from within the soul before it can be found in nature.

  #ode#meditation#grief#nature#1800s
• 1798 [samuel-taylor-coleridge] Frost at Midnight
  Fears in Solitude

  Alone with his sleeping infant at midnight, Coleridge meditates on frost, childhood memory, and the life of open wonder he wishes for his son.

  #conversation-poem#meditation#nature#1790s
• 1798 [william-wordsworth] Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798
  Lyrical Ballads

  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.

  #blank-verse#meditation#nature#memory#1790s