Arts & Sciences

The Homeric Hexameter Described and Exemplified

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772–1834

From Poems of Coleridge, selected by Arthur Symons (1905)

Arts & Sciences

Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows,
Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean.

MLA

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “The Homeric Hexameter Described and Exemplified.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/77/.

Chicago

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “The Homeric Hexameter Described and Exemplified.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/77/.

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