Versos English Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Netherlands

English poem

The Netherlands

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Water and windmills, greenness, Islets green;-- Willows whose Trunks beside the shadows stood Of their own higher half, and willowy swamp:-- Farmhouses that at anchor seem'd--in the inland sky The fog-transfixing Spires-- Water, wide water, greenness and green banks, And water seen--

June 1828. Now first published from an MS.

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