This poem describes an "idling Spirit" which searches for mirrors of itself everywhere and "makes a toy of thought." The speaker of this poem pretended to study his books while he was actually lost in thought, but notes that when his door opened, "I snatched / A hasty glance, and still my heart leaped up / For still I hoped to see the stranger's face." Its speaker recalls "my sweet birthplace, and the old church tower / Whose bells, the poor man's only music, rang / from morn to evening," and is disappointed that he grew up "In the great city, pent 'mid cloisters dim," but takes comfort in the prospect of his son growing up in the countryside. The speaker broods over a film fluttering on a grate due to a low flame, while the title object of this poem "performs its secret ministry / Unhelped by any wind." For 10 points, name this nocturnal poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
This poem describes an "idling Spirit" which searches for mirrors of itself everywhere and "makes a toy of thought." The speaker of this poem pretended to study his books while he was actually lost in thought, but notes that when his door opened, "I snatched / A hasty glance, and still my heart leaped up / For still I hoped to see the stranger's face." Its speaker recalls "my sweet birthplace, and the old church tower / Whose bells, the poor man's only music, rang / from morn to evening," and is disappointed that he grew up "In the great city, pent 'mid cloisters dim," but takes comfort in the prospect of his son growing up in the countryside. The speaker broods over a film fluttering on a grate due to a low flame, while the title object of this poem "performs its secret ministry / Unhelped by any wind." For 10 points, name this nocturnal poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
This poem describes an "idling Spirit" which searches for mirrors of itself everywhere and "makes a toy of thought.
"Frost at Midnight"