British Romantic Poetry - Samuel Coleridge

Question 1

I looked to heaven, and tried to to pray; but or ever a prayer had gusht, a wicked whisper, and made my heart as dry as dust

Answer 1

Coleridge
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Question 2

O happy living things! No tongue their beauty might declare: a spring old love gushed from my heart, and i blessed them unaware

Answer 2

Coleridge
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Question 3

Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, and close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, and drunk the milk of Paradise

Answer 3

Coleridge
- Kubla Kahn

Question 4

So shalt thou see and hear the lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy God utters, who from eternity doth teach himself in all, and all things in himself. Great universal Teacher! He shall mound thy spirit, and by giving make it ask

Answer 4

Coleridge
- Frost at Midnight