Morgan BellLess gross than bodily . . .
November 26th 2008 15:40
its a new botanical challenge for Cheryl!
(ok well one of them is clearly a rusty piece of barbed wire, but i just felt like including it)
from This Lime Tree Bower My Prison
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
nobody describes the divinity of nature quite like Coleridge!
i always think of this poem when there is a sunny day, its like all the pieces of the world slot together in harmony for a brief moment and you feel in tune with your environment
click, and the tides turn, the current is suspended, and you can embrace that which you usually struggle against . . .
(or does that only happen with a healthy dose of Opium?)
these moments are rare and fleeting . . .
i can appreciate pantheism - it is just so . . . umm . . . well, romantic!
(ok well one of them is clearly a rusty piece of barbed wire, but i just felt like including it)
My gentle-hearted Charles ! for thou hast pined
And hunger'd after Nature, many a year,
In the great City pent, winning thy way
With sad yet patient soul, through evil and pain
And strange calamity ! Ah ! slowly sink
Behind the western ridge, thou glorious Sun !
Shine in the slant beams of the sinking orb,
Ye purple heath-flowers ! richlier burn, ye clouds !
Live in the yellow light, ye distant groves !
And kindle, thou blue Ocean ! So my friend
Struck with deep joy may stand, as I have stood,
Silent with swimming sense ; yea, gazing round
On the wide landscape, gaze till all doth seem
Less gross than bodily ;
And hunger'd after Nature, many a year,
In the great City pent, winning thy way
With sad yet patient soul, through evil and pain
And strange calamity ! Ah ! slowly sink
Behind the western ridge, thou glorious Sun !
Shine in the slant beams of the sinking orb,
Ye purple heath-flowers ! richlier burn, ye clouds !
Live in the yellow light, ye distant groves !
And kindle, thou blue Ocean ! So my friend
Struck with deep joy may stand, as I have stood,
Silent with swimming sense ; yea, gazing round
On the wide landscape, gaze till all doth seem
Less gross than bodily ;
from This Lime Tree Bower My Prison
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
nobody describes the divinity of nature quite like Coleridge!
i always think of this poem when there is a sunny day, its like all the pieces of the world slot together in harmony for a brief moment and you feel in tune with your environment
click, and the tides turn, the current is suspended, and you can embrace that which you usually struggle against . . .
(or does that only happen with a healthy dose of Opium?)
these moments are rare and fleeting . . .
i can appreciate pantheism - it is just so . . . umm . . . well, romantic!
| 73 |
| Vote |
Add To: 
subscribe to this blog
Comment by Wilson Pon
Health 2 Know
Adventure Toes
boxing sound
Business Rope
Fun Places 2 Travel
By the way, would you mind to tell the name for the second pic that have the big red leaves?
Comment by Jason King
Sydney Table
Salty Popcorn
Total Randomness
Comment by Morgan Bell
Deep Pencil
Business News
Movie Train
i was hoping Cheryl would stop by and enlighten me (im a bit hopeless when it comes to plant identification)
but if she doesnt i will certainly find out for you!
hi Jason,
thanks!
Comment by Cheryl J
Rhythmatism
Budget Centsability
Will check properley when I get home.
Byeee........
Comment by Jason King
Sydney Table
Salty Popcorn
Total Randomness
Comment by Cheryl J
Rhythmatism
Budget Centsability
And thus ends my botanical quest. If anyone knows what the top plant is I'd love to know, I likey!
Luverley poem too.
Comment by Morgan Bell
Deep Pencil
Business News
Movie Train
you never fail to impress!
Barbicus Rustifencius haha
i will have to investigate the first one, its like a proper tree with a trunk and everything . . . yeah that was helpful wasnt it!
very VERY well done with your plant identification skills!
thanks so much!