Excerpt from Geraldine: A Sequel to Coleridge's Christabel; With Other Poems The Christabel of Coleridge is a poem of which it is almost impossible to give shortly a fair and perfect abstract. Every word tells; every line is a picture simple, beautiful, and imaginative, it retains its hold upon the mind by so many delicate feelers and touch ing points, that to outline harshly the main branches of the tree, would seem to be doing the injustice of neglect to the elegance of its foliage, and the micro scopic perfection of every single leaf. Those who now read it for the first time, will scarcely be dis posed to assent to so much praise; but the man to whom it is familiar will remember how it has grown to his own liking, how much of melody, depth, na. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.