Perspiration

Samuel Taylor Coleridge * Track #50 On The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol I

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Perspiration by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The full title of this poem is “Perspiration: A Travelling Eclogue”. It was written in July of 1794 while Coleridge was beginning his walking tour with a friend named Joseph Hucks, and was included in his first letter to Robert Southey.

In the letter, Coleridge writes: “Our journeying has been into...

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The dust flies smothering, as on clatt'ring wheel
Loath'd Aristocracy careers along;
The distant track quick vibrates to the eye,
And white and dazzling undulates with heat,
Where scorching to the unwary traveller's touch,
The stone fence flings its narrow slip of shade;
Or, where the worn sides of the chalky road
Yield their scant excavations (sultry grots!),
Emblem of languid patience, we behold
The fleecy files faint-ruminating lie.

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