What is Life?
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Resembles life what once was deem'd of light,
Too ample in itself for human sight?
An absolute self -- an element ungrounded --
All that we see, all colours of all shade
By encroach of darkness made? --
Is very life by consciousness unbounded?
And all the thoughts, pains, joys of mortal breath,
A war-embrace of wrestling life and death?
1805
Source:
The Golden Book Of ColeridgeCopyright 1914
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.