Then all the charm Is broken — all that phantom-world so fair Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread, And each mis-shape the other. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Then all the charm
Is broken — all that phantom-world so fair
Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread,
And each mis-shape the other.

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About Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834) was an English poet, critic and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets.

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Samuel Cousins / After Washington Allston (Public domain / CC0)

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Alternative Names: S. T. Coleridge

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