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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANNA AND HARLAND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Within these wilds was anna wont to rove
Last Line: Like heaven's bright beauteous bow reflected in the stream.
Subject(s): Ghosts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Supernatural
First Line: Within these wilds was anna wont to rove
Last Line: Like heaven's bright beauteous bow reflected in the stream.
Subject(s): Ghosts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Supernatural
Within these wilds was Anna wont to rove
While Harland told his love in many a sigh,
But stern on Harland roll'd her brother's eye,
They fought, they fell -- her brother and her love!
To Death's dark house did grief-worn Anna haste,
Yet here her pensive ghost delights to stay;
Oft pouring on the winds the broken lay --
And hark, I hear her -- 'twas the passing blast.
I love to sit upon her tomb's dark grass,
Then Memory backward rolls Time's shadowy tide;
The tales of other days before me glide:
With eager thought I seize them as they pass;
For fair, tho' faint, the forms of Memory gleam,
Like Heaven's bright beauteous bow reflected in the stream.
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