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Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Biography

Novelist

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge was an influential British novelist known for her unique literary style and profound emotional expression. Her works often delve into moral and religious themes, earning her a dedicated readership.

Poetry Loss Grief

Author:Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

“We Never Said Farewell We never said farewell, nor even looked Our last upon each other, for no sign Was made when we the linkèd chain unhooked And broke the level line. And here we dwell together, side by side, Our places fixed for life upon the chart. Two islands that the roaring seas divide Are not more far apart.”

Poetry

Author:Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

“Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare, A little child in a manger. The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care, To men He was a stranger, The safety of the world was lying there, And the world's danger.”

Men World Children Littles Care Lying Saws Danger Lows Safety Stranger Stable Christmas Eve Oxen

Author:Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

“Breathe slumbrous music round me, sweet and slow,To honied phrases set!Into the land of dreams I long to go.Bid me forget!”

Long Dream Forget Land Sweet Rounds Breathe Phrases

Book:Fancy's Following

Source: Fancy's Following

“Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?-Moths that a garment fret.The world is turned memorial, crying, "ThouShalt not forget!”

World Forget Pleasure Cry Delight Memorial Garments Moths

Book:Fancy's Following

Source: Fancy's Following

“Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee,Thou little heart?”

Men World Heart Littles Art Stills Enough Poor Weak Wide Thee

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“How often one talks not to hear what the other person has got to say, but to hear what one has got to say oneself!”

Persons Conversation Oneself

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.”

Writing Imagination Quality Prejudice Historian Biographies

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“The fruits of the tree of Knowledge are various; he must be strong indeed who can digest all of them.”

Strong Knowledge Tree Fruit Various Tree Of Knowledge

Author:Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

“We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.”

Men Eye Young Wise Doors West East Her Eyes Merry Very Wise

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

About the Author

Born: September 23, 1861
Died: August 25, 1907
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 10

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