The Mind

Fragment: Let Eagle bid the Tortoise sunward soar

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772–1834

From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)

The Mind

Let Eagle bid the Tortoise sunward soar--
As vainly Strength speaks to a broken Mind.

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1807

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Fragment: Let Eagle bid the Tortoise sunward soar.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/454/.

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