The Mind
Fragment: The body
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
The Mind
The body,
Eternal Shadow of the finite Soul,
The Soul's self-symbol, its image of itself.
Its own yet not itself.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Fragment: The body.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/455/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Fragment: The body.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/455/.
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