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About The Nightingale
(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

From a letter from STC to Wordsworth after writing The Nightingale:

In stale blank verse a subject stale
I send per post my Nightingale;
And like an honest bard, dear Wordsworth,
You'll tell me what you think, my Bird's worth.
My own opinion's briefly this--
His bill he opens not amiss;
And when he has sung a stave or so,
His breast, & some small space below,
So throbs & swells, that you might swear
No vulgar music's working there.
So far, so good; but then, 'od rot him!
There's something falls off at his bottom.
Yet, sure, no wonder it should breed,
That my Bird's Tail's a tail indeed
And makes it's own inglorious harmony
Æolio crepitû, non carmine.


Poems/ Poetry / Quotations by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 About The Nightingale | As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood (fragment) | Come, come thou bleak December wind (fragment) | Despair | Duty Surviving Self-Love | Exchange, The | Faded Flower, The | From 'Religious Musings' | Glycine's Song | Human Life | I know 'tis but a Dream, yet feel more anguish (fragment) | Improvisatore, The | Life | Limbo | Lines | Love's Apparition and Evanishment: An Allegoric Romance | On Donne's Poetry | Pains Of Sleep, The | Song | Sonnet: To The River Otter | Suicide's Argument, The | Nightingale, The | Thicker than rain-drops on November thorn (fragment) | To William Wordsworth | Work Without Hope | Zapolya |


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Many great poems where created by English Poets in Cumbrias Lake District Areas and Villages such as Grasmere, Buttermere, Bowness, Kendal, Windermere, Keswick and Coniston.
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