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Recollections Of Love
(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

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.


Poems/ Poetry / Quotations by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 Come, come thou bleak December wind (fragment) | Constancy To An Ideal Object | Despair | Duty Surviving Self-Love | Exchange, The | Faded Flower, The | Glycine's Song | Human Life | Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni | I know 'tis but a Dream, yet feel more anguish (fragment) | Improvisatore, The | Knight's Tomb, The | Kubla Khan | Life | Lines | Love's Apparition and Evanishment: An Allegoric Romance | On Donne's Poetry | Pains Of Sleep, The | Song | Nightingale, The | Thicker than rain-drops on November thorn (fragment) | To Asra | To William Wordsworth | Work Without Hope | Zapolya |


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