APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoet AnalysisPoet's Biography
First Line: The poet in his lone yet genial hour Last Line: Phantoms of sublimity. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets
The poet in his lone yet genial hour Gives to his eyes a magnifying power: Or rather he emancipates his eyes From the black shapeless accidents of size - In unctuous cones of kindling coal, Or smoke upwreathing from the pipe's trim bole, His gifted ken can see Phantoms of sublimity.