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LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - MARCH 1810 by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHEN HOPE BUT MADE TRANQUILLITY BE FELT
Last Line: FANN'D THE CALM AIR UPON THE BROW OF TOIL --
Subject(s): HOPE; OPTIMISM;

When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt --
A Flight of Hopes for ever on the wing
But made Tranquillity a conscious Thing --
And wheeling round and round in sportive Coil,
Fann'd the calm Air upon the brow of Toil --



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