Lines Composed While Climbing The Left Ascent Of Brockley Coomb, Somersetshire

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Title:     Lines Composed While Climbing The Left Ascent Of Brockley Coomb, Somersetshire
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

With many a pause and oft reverted eye
I climb the Coomb's ascent: sweet songsters near
Warble in shade their wild-wood melody:
Far off the unvarying Cuckoo soothes my ear.
Up scour the startling stragglers of the flock
That on green plots o'er precipices browze:
From the deep fissures of the naked rock
The Yew-tree bursts! Beneath its dark green boughs
(Mid which the May-thorn blends its blossoms white)
Where broad smooth stones jut out in mossy seats,
I rest:--and now have gain'd the topmost site.
Ah! what a luxury of landscape meets
My gaze! Proud towers, and Cots more dear to me,
Elm-shadow'd Fields, and prospect-bounding Sea!
Deep sighs my lonely heart: I drop the tear:
Enchanting spot! O were my Sara here!

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Lines Composed While Climbing The Left Ascent Of Brockley Coomb, Somersetshire, May 1795

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