Versos English Samuel Taylor Coleridge The poet in his lone yet genial hour

English poem

The poet in his lone yet genial hour

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Gives to his eyes a magnifying power: Or rather he emancipates his eyes From the black shapeless accidents of size-- In unctuous cones of kindling coal, Or smoke upwreathing from the pipe's trim hole, His gifted ken can see Phantoms of sublimity.

1800.