Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON TAKING LEAVE OF - , 1817 [SHORTER VERSION OF 'TO TWO SISTERS'], by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE


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ON TAKING LEAVE OF - , 1817 [SHORTER VERSION OF 'TO TWO SISTERS'], by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: To know, to esteem, to love - and then to part
Last Line: And shine in the eye of all the world beside!
Subject(s): Farewell; Sisters; Parting


To know, to esteem, to love -- and then to part,
Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart!
O for some dear abiding-place of Love,
O'er which my spirit, like the mother dove,
Might brood with warming wings! -- O fair as kind,
Were but one sisterhood with you combined
(Your very image they in shape and mind),
Far rather would I sit in solitude,
The forms of memory all my mental food,
And dream of you, sweet sisters (ah, not mine!)
And only dream of you (ah dream and pine!)
Than have the presence, and partake the pride,
And shine in the eye of all the world beside!





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