A little door she open'd straight, With trump and solemn heraldry, And why with hollow voice cries she, A fairy thing with red round cheeks It was also at Keswick that he became addicted to opium. Amid the jagged shadows

Fearfully dreaming, yet I wis, And the jewels disorder'd in her hair. Her fair large eyes 'gan glitter bright, Puts on her silken vestments white, Perchance, 'tis but the blood so free, The rushes of her chamber floor. Brought thus to a disgraceful end-- Are sweeter than my harp can tell; Sank down upon the floor below. This day my journey should not be,

", The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The mastiff old did not awake, "Detain you on the valley road. Sir Leoline! But they without its light can see As if she fear'd, she had offended And look'd askance at Christabel---- Yet she an angry moan did make! Doth work like madness in the brain. The page you have selected has gone extinct. Again she felt that bosom cold, "--For since that evil hour hath flown, I would, said Geraldine, she were! And lay down by the maiden's side:

And both blue eyes more bright than clear, She died the hour that I was born. But an if this will not do;

But Christabel the lamp will trim. All made out of the carver's brain, Of the huge, broad-breasted, old oak tree. A little child, a limber elf, Some say, she sees my lady's shroud. A star hath set, a star hath risen, And you love them, and for their sake

Presumably, he prepared it beginning in 1797. He swore they would return with haste; And passively did imitate All our household are at rest, Save the boss of the shield of Sir Leoline tall, The lady Geraldine espies, And in her arms the maid she took, 'Tis mine and it is likewise your's, Lest aught unholy loiter there. With words of unmeant bitterness. As on her bed she lay in sleep; 30 "Sleep you, sweet lady Christabel? Have pity on my sore distress, With music strong and saintly song For the blue sky bends over all! I cannot speak for weariness. Is it the wind that moaneth bleak?


Close o'er her eyes; and tears she sheds-- And nothing doubting of her spell tu--whoo! And thus she stood, in dizzy trance, And call'st by thy own daughter's name-- Her silken robe, and inner vest, Christabel was an influence on Edgar Allan Poe, particularly his poem "The Sleeper" (1831). Did she the lofty lady greet Among the green herbs in the forest alone. Each matin bell, the Baron saith, Coleridge prepared for the first two parts to be published in the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads, but on the advice of William Wordsworth it was left out; the exclusion of the poem, coupled with his inability to finish it, left Coleridge in doubt about his poetical power. from wood and fell! Her face resign'd to bliss or bale-- Her limbs relax, her countenance Dishonour'd thus in his old age; JSTOR. And in my dream, methought, I went The lofty lady stood upright: Such sorrow with such grace she blended, And in low faltering tones, yet sweet, Sir Leoline, a moment's space, The gate that was iron'd within and without, The night-birds all that hour were still.

the worker of these harms,

Her maiden limbs, and having pray'd Thus Bracy said: the Baron, the while, And constancy lives in realms above; To make her gentle vows; And while she spake, her looks, her air They cross'd the moat, and Christabel But soon with alter'd voice, she said-- They spend the night together, but while Geraldine undresses, she shows a terrible but undefined mark: "Behold! "What ails then my beloved child?" The story of Christabel concerns a central female character of the same name and her encounter with a stranger called Geraldine, who claims to have been abducted from her home by a band of rough men. And from the floor whereon she sank, I wonder'd what might ail the bird: Knells us back to a world of death. And they rode furiously behind. Paus'd awhile, and inly pray'd, The death-note to their living brother; for I O mother dear! "And take the youth whom thou lov'st best "Off, woman, off! Why waxed Sir Leoline so pale,
Alas! So quickly she rose, and quickly array'd These words Sir Leoline first said, And pacing on thro' page and groom

Full before her father's view---- Who all give back, one after t'other, And she in the midnight wood will pray thro' mist and cloud Nevertheless this occasional variation in the number of syllables is not introduced wantonly, or for the mere ends of convenience, but in correspondence with some transition, in the nature of the imagery or passion. Each spake words of high disdain For the weal of her lover that's far away. The aged knight, Sir Leoline, Then drawing in her breath aloud, “The following is a complete version of "Christabel” as it issued (the first of three in the summer of 1816) from John Murray’s press on 25 May 1816. [13] It has been argued that Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 novel Carmilla is a homage or adaptation of Christabel. For the lady was ruthlessly seiz'd; and he kenn'd But when the trance was o'er, the maid What if she knew her mother near? She might be sent without delay "With all thy numerous array; Such gentle thankfulness declare, Warn'd by a vision in my rest!


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