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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Coleridge belongs in the company of the great collaborators, the great poet-critics, and—paradoxically—the great popular poets. The paradox is that the most philosophical of philosophical critics, fit for the company

Frost at Midnight [1798 version]

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

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The Frost  performs its secret ministry, 
Unhelped by any wind. The  owlet's cry
Came loud and hark, again! loud as before.  
The inmates of my cottage, all at rest,
Have left me to that solitude, which suits
Abstruser musings: save that at my side
My cradled infant slumbers peacefully.
'Tis calm indeed! so calm, that it disturbs
And vexes meditation, with its strange

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