Work Without Hope - Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem reading | Jordan Harling Reads

Poetry reading of Work Without Hope (1825) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair-
The bees are stirring-birds are on the wing-
And Winter slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!
And I the while, the sole unbusy thing,
Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.
Yet well I ken the banks where amaranths blow,
Have traced the fount whence streams of nectar flow.
Bloom, O ye amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,
For me ye bloom not! Glide, rich streams, away!
With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll:
And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?
Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.
Work Without Hope - written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Narrated by Jordan Harling
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Peter Vandyke (1729-1799)
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[@concars1234]

Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve. wow. That's wonderful

[@srhodes6963]

Thank you so much