The Rime of the Ancient Glam Rocker

I plan on compiling a glam rock CD mix to help celebrate my birthday (a week from today -- plenty of good presents still available), so I have been immersing myself in English music circa 1971-74.
You can't really appreciate glam -- the stomping simplicity of 1950s rock melded to 1970s fuzz -- without listening to T. Rex.
T. Rex leader Marc Bolan (pictured above) essentially kicked off the glam movement with "Ride a White Swan" back in October 1970.
The Rough Guide to Rock, treading an established path, refers to the T. Rex sound as "strutting guitar boogie, breath-taking vocals and meaningless lyrics."
This assessment has been passed along from generations of music critics and fans, so that it now stands as empirical fact.
As I listened to the T. Rex album "The Slider" from 1972 last night, I wondered if the prevailing wisdom might be wrong.
What if Bolan's oblique lyrics actually pack as much meaning as a Coleridge poem, and we have simply been unable to accurately comprehend them all these years?
Each line below comes from either Marc Bolan (1947-77) or Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). Try to determine the author.
A. "Pleasant crescent moon fills my heart with pain."
B. "Where melodies round honey-dropping-flowers."
C. "Shallow are the actions of the children of men"
D. "His eyes were bored with galactic lore."
E. "The night's dismay saddened and stunned the coming day."
F. "Just like a boat you are sunk but somehow you float you do."
G. "I gave you hope, gave health and genius, and an ample scope."
H. "Get it on, bang a gong, get it on."
OK... I know that last one was the easy one!
I just put that line in to throw the others in such sharp relief. It is not so easy discerning the poet from the allegedly nonsense-spewing rock star!
For the record, B, E and G are Coleridge. The rest are Bolan.
Nonsense? Perhaps we just need to listen a little closer.
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