Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FIRST ADVENT OF LOVE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE


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First Line: O fair is love's first hope to gentle mind
Last Line: Meets it with brow uplift, and stays his reaping.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


O fair is Love's first hope to gentle mind!
As Eve's first star thro' fleecy cloudlet peeping;
And sweeter than the gentle south-west wind,
O'er willowy meads and shadow'd waters creeping,
And Ceres' golden fields; -- the sultry hind
Meets it with brow uplift, and stays his reaping.





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