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The poetical and dramatic works of S.T. Coleridge
The poetical and dramatic works of ST Coleridge Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH. FIRST ADVENT OF LOVE O Fair is Love's first hope to gentle mind! As Eve's first star thro' fleecy cloudlet peeping; And sweeter th... more »an the gentle south-west wind, O'er willowy meads and shadowed waters creeping, And Ceres' golden fields;—the sultry hind Meets it with brow uplift, and stays his reaping. 1788. GENEVIEVE. Maid of my Love, sweet Genevieve! In Beauty's light you glide along: Your eye is like the star of eve, And sweet your Voice, as Seraph's song. Yet not your heavenly Beauty gives This heart with passion soft to glow: See Note at the end of the volume. Within your soul a Voice there lives! It bids you hear the tale of Woe. When sinking low the Sufferer wan Beholds no hand outstretched to save, Fair, as the bosom, of the Swan That rises graceful o'er the wave, I've seen your breast with pity heave, And therefore love I you, sweet Genevieve! THE RAVEN. A CHRISTMAS TALE, TOLD BY A SCHOOL-BOY TO HIS LITTLE BROTHERS AND SISTERS. Underneath an old oak tree There was of swine a huge company, That grunted as they crunched the mast: For that was ripe, and fell full fast. Then they trotted away, for the wind grew high: One acorn they left, and no more might you spy. Next came a Raven, that liked not such folly: He belonged, they did say, to the witch Melan- choly ! Blacker was he than blackest jet, Flew low in the rain, and his feathers not wet. He picked up the acorn and buried it straight By the side of a river both deep and great. Where then did the Raven go ? He went high and low, Over hill, over dale, did the black Raven go. Many Autumns, many Springs Travelled he with wandering wings: Many Summers, many Winters— I can't tell half his adventures. At length he came back, and with him a She, And the acorn was...« less