What is this from...? A Poem, A Song, simply a Quote??

Question

"Sense of past Youth, and Manhood come in vain,
And Genius given, and Knowledge won in vain"

It has been rattling around in my head off and on for YEARS!
I've never been able to identify it.
I THINK I may have remembered a snippet of a longer Poem from University but the grey matter has unfortunately let me down time and time again.

Help me please.... What Poem or Song, are these lines from?

Answer 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To William Wordsworth

O great Bard !
Ere yet that last strain dying awed the air,
With stedfast eye I viewed thee in the choir
Of ever-enduring men. The truly great
Have all one age, and from one visible space
Shed influence ! They, both in power and act,
Are permanent, and Time is not with them,
Save as it worketh for them, they in it.
Nor less a sacred Roll, than those of old,
And to be placed, as they, with gradual fame
Among the archives of mankind, thy work
Makes audible a linkéd lay of Truth,
Of Truth profound a sweet continuous lay,
Not learnt, but native, her own natural notes !
Ah ! as I listened with a heart forlorn,
The pulses of my being beat anew :
And even as Life returns upon the drowned,
Life's joy rekindling roused a throng of pains--
Keen pangs of Love, awakening as a babe
Turbulent, with an outcry in the heart ;
And Fears self-willed, that shunned the eye of Hope ;
And Hope that scarce would know itself from Fear ;
Sense of past Youth, and Manhood come in vain,
And Genius given, and Knowledge won in vain ;
And all which I had culled in wood-walks wild,
And all which patient toil had reared, and all,
Commune with thee had opened out--but flowers
Strewed on my corse, and borne upon my bier,
In the same coffin, for the self-same grave !
That way no more ! and ill beseems it me,
Who came a welcomer in herald's guise,
Singing of Glory, and Futurity,
To wander back on such unhealthful road,
Plucking the poisons of self-harm ! And ill
Such intertwine beseems triumphal wreaths
Strew'd before thy advancing !

Answer 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To William Wordsworth

Answer 3

The quote is from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "To William Wordsworth".

The poem was composed on the night after his recitation of a poem on the growth of an individual mind.

The poem was an early version of The Prelude.

Answer 4

Keen pangs of Love, awakening as a babe
Turbulent, with an outcry in the heart ;
And Fears self-willed, that shunned the eye of Hope ;
And Hope that scarce would know itself from Fear ;
Sense of past Youth, and Manhood come in vain,
And Genius given, and Knowledge won in vain ;


A poem by William Wordsworth

Answer 5

It was by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in a response to William Wordsworth. It is long. The website below contains the text.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

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Answer 8

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