Inside the Coach

Samuel Taylor Coleridge * Track #26 On The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol I

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Inside the Coach by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Written in 1791. In this humorous poem, the narrator is riding inside of a coach. He originally complains that the sight of Bagshot Heath is so uninteresting that it is “hard … to try / Unclos’d to keep the weary eye” (1-2). But, similarly, the ride in the coach is so bumpy that it is “harder yet” (...

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'Tis hard on Bagshot Heath to try
Unclos'd to keep the weary eye;
But ah! Oblivion's nod to get
In rattling coach is harder yet.
Slumbrous God of half-shut eye!
Who lovest with limbs supine to lie;
Soother sweet of toil and care
Listen, listen to my prayer;
And to thy votary dispense
Thy soporific influence!
What tho' around thy drowsy head
The seven-fold cap of night be spread,
Yet lift that drowsy head awhile
And yawn propitiously a smile;
In drizzly rains poppean dews
O'er the tired inmates of the Coach diffuse;
And when thou'st charm'd our eyes to rest,
Pillowing the chin upon the breast,
Bid many a dream from thy dominions
Wave its various-painted pinions,
Till ere the splendid visions close
We snore quartettes in ecstasy of nose.
While thus we urge our airy course,
O may no jolt's electric force
Our fancies from their steeds unhorse,
And call us from thy fairy reign
To dreary Bagshot Heath again!

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