<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512797" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode To Tranquillity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tranquillity! thou better name<br>Than all the family of Fame!<br>Thou ne'er wilt leave my riper age<br>To low intrigue, or factious rage;<br>For oh! dear child of thoughtful Truth,<br>To thee I gave my early youth,<br>And left the bark, and blest the steadfast shore,<br>Ere yet the tempest rose and scared me with its roar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who late and lingering seeks thy shrine,<br>On him but seldom, Power divine,<br>Thy spirit rests! Satiety <br>And Sloth, poor counterfeits of thee,<br>Mock the tired worldling. Idle hope<br>And dire remembrance interlope,<br>To vex the feverish slumbers of the mind:<br>The bubble floats before, the spectre stalks behind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But me thy gentle hand will lead<br>At morning through the accustomed mead;<br>And in the sultry summer's heat<br>Will build me up a mossy seat;<br>And when the gust of Autumn crowds,<br>And breaks the busy moonlight clouds,<br>Thou best the thought canst raise, the heart attune,<br>Light as the busy clouds, calm as the gliding moon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The feeling heart, the searching soul,<br>To thee I dedicate the whole!<br>And while within myself I trace<br>The greatness of some future race,<br>Aloof with hermit-eye I scan<br>The present works of present man--<br>A wild and dream-like trade of blood and guile,<br>Too foolish for a tear, too wicked for a smile!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Samuel+Taylor+Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512797" data-title="Ode To Tranquillity de Samuel Taylor Coleridge" data-description="Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame! Thou ne'er wilt leave my riper age To low intrigue, or factious rage; For oh! dear child of thoughtful Truth, To thee I gave my early youth, And left the bark, and blest the steadfast sho..."></div> </div> </div>

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