Recollections Of Love

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)



I

How warm this woodland wild Recess !
     Love surely hath been breathing here ;
     And this sweet bed of heath, my dear !
Swells up, then sinks with faint caress,
     As if to have you yet more near.

     II

Eight springs have flown, since last I lay
     On sea-ward Quantock's heathy hills,
     Where quiet sounds from hidden rills
Float hear and there, like things astray,
     And high o'er head the sky-lark shrills.

     III

No voice as yet had made the air
     Be music with your name ; yet why
     That asking look ? that yearning sigh ?
That sense of promise every where ?
     Belovéd ! flew your spirit by ?

     IV

As when a mother doth explore
     The rose-mark on her long-lost child,
     I met, I loved you, maiden mild !
As whom I long had loved before--
     So deeply had I been beguiled.

     V

You stood before me like a thought,
     A dream remembered in a dream.
     But when those meek eyes first did seem
To tell me, Love within you wrought--
     O Greta, dear domestic stream !

     VI

Has not, since then, Love's prompture deep,
     Has not Love's whisper evermore
     Been ceaseless, as thy gentle roar ?
Sole voice, when other voices sleep,
     Dear under-song in clamor's hour.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AXBAB CXACA DEEDE FGGFG HIIHI JFFJX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,197
Words 202
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. more…

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