Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - SEPTEMBER 1803, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such love as mourning husbands have Last Line: -- cold to the touch & blooming to the eye -- Subject(s): Love | ||||||||
Such love as mourning Husbands have. To her whose spirit has been newly given To be his guardian Saint in Heaven Whose Beauty lieth in the Grave Unconquered as if the Soul could find no purer Tabernacle, nor place of Sojourn, than the virgin Body it had before dwelt in, & wished to stay there till the Resurrection -- Far liker to a Flower now than when alive -- Cold to the Touch & blooming to the eye -- | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD A CHILD'S EVENING PRAYER by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A DAY DREAM by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY A VIEW, OF SADDLEBACK IN CUMBERLAND by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
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