 mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And...  Poems: Vol. I. - Page 145by Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 157 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lucy Newlyn - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 292 pages
...was reared In the great city, pent 'mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes...doth teach Himself in all, and all things in himself. (51-62) Coleridge here emphasises that the eternal language of nature is intelligible even to a 'babe';... | |
 | Angela Esterhammer - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 396 pages
...reflection and utterance, transmuted into an eternal, divine language in dialogue with the human subject: But thou, my babe! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes...doth teach Himself in all, and all things in himself. (54-62) But the poem's ultimate act of reflection occurs when the prophecy of the baby's future turns... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 2002 - 260 pages
...thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy God 60 Utters, who from eternity doth teach Himself in all, and all things in himself. Great universal Teacher! he shall mould Thy spirit, and by giving make it ask. Therefore all seasons... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 78 pages
...Townsman, or aunt, or sister more beloved, My play-mate when we both were clothed alike! l\V' >*V ' W But thou, my babe! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes...doth teach Himself in all, and all things in himself. Great universal Teacher! he shall mould Thy spirit, and by giving make it ask. Therefore all seasons... | |
 | Bruce Haley - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 322 pages
..."companionable form" for the speaking poet. The child belongs to the world of nature, one of those lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal...doth teach Himself in all, and all things in himself. Great universal Teacher! He shall mould Thy spirit, and by giving, make it ask. The inquiring spirit... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Fiction - 2003 - 356 pages
...thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy God 60 Utters, who from eternity doth teach Himself in all, and all things in himself. Great universal Teacher! he shall mould Thy spirit, and by giving make it ask. Therefore all seasons... | |
 | Barry Spurr, Lloyd Cameron - English literature - 2000 - 332 pages
...the Romantic doctrine of pantheism (the idea that God is part of and present in all of nature): ... who from eternity doth teach Himself in all and all things in himself. Great universal Teacher! he shall mould Thy spirit, and by giving make it ask. In the form of an argument... | |
 | Edward Hoffman - Family & Relationships - 2003 - 306 pages
...see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy God Utters from eternity doth teach Himself in all, and all things in himself. Great universal Teacher! he shall mould Thy spirit, and by giving make it ask. Meeting Your Newborn... | |
 | Barry McDonald - Nature - 2003 - 360 pages
...and the Cosmologica! Sciences In "Frost at Midnight" Coleridge addresses these lines to his baby son: But thou, my babe! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes...doth teach Himself in all, and all things in himself. The idea of the natural order as not only sacred but as a symbolic language strikes the modern mind... | |
 | William Keach - English language - 2004 - 216 pages
...with its imperfect linguistic resources. As Coleridge promises his infant son in Frost at Midnight, so shalt thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds...eternity doth teach Himself in all, and all things in himself.27 (58-62) Things cogently perceived through the senses are the words of God; God's words are... | |
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