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Work Without Hope
(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair--
The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--
And WINTER slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring !
And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing,
Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.

Yet well I ken the banks where Amaranths blow,
Have traced the fount whence streams of nectar flow.
Bloom, O ye Amaranths ! bloom for whom ye may,
For me ye bloom not ! Glide, rich streams, away !
With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll :
And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul ?
WORK WITHOUT HOPE draws nectar in a sieve,
And HOPE without an object cannot live.


Poems/ Poetry / Quotations by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 A Soliloquy Of The Full Moon, She Being In A Mad Passion | A Tombless Epitaph | About The Nightingale | Aplolgia Pro Vita Sua | As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood (fragment) | Blossing Of The Solitary Date-Tree, The | Christabel | Cologne | Dejection: An Ode | Dungeon, The | Epitaph | Fragment | France: An Ode | From 'Religious Musings' | Garden Of Boccaccio, The | Good, Great Man, The | Inscription For A Fountain On A Heath | Limbo | Metrical Feet | Presence Of Love, The | Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, The | Sea-ward, white gleaming thro' the busy scud (fragment) | Something Childish, But Very Natural | Sonnet: To The River Otter | Suicide's Argument, The | Netherlands, The (fragment) | Three Sorts of Friends, The (fragment) | To A Primrose | To Nature | What Is Life? | Whom should I choose for my Judge? (fragment) |


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