Fragment 7: When Hope but made Tranquility be felt by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 7: When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt

BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt—

A Flight of Hopes for ever on the wing

But made Tranquillity a conscious Thing—

And wheeling round and round in sportive coil

Fann'd the calm air upon the brow of Toil—

I like reading these fragments. A link to read more is here. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/samuel-taylor-coleridge