Nature
Fragment: The Moon, how definite its orb
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
The Moon, how definite its orb!
Yet gaze again, and with a steady gaze--
'Tis there indeed,--but where is it not?--
It is suffused o'er all the sapphire Heaven,
Trees, herbage, snake-like stream, unwrinkled Lake,
Whose very murmur does of it partake!
And low and close the broad smooth mountain is more a thing
of Heaven than when distinct by one dim shade, and yet
undivided from the universal cloud in which it towers infinite
in height.
Codex Note
? 1801
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Fragment: The Moon, how definite its orb.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/439/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Fragment: The Moon, how definite its orb.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/439/.
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