Well, they are gone, and here must I remain

'Ye Ice-Falls! Ye that from the mountain's brow

Adown enormous ravines slope amain -...'

A selection of Coleridge's poems, including 'This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison' and 'Frost at Midnight'

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). Coleridge's Selected Poetry, The Complete Poems and (with William Wordsworth) Lyrical Ballads are available in Penguin Classics.