Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO DISAPPOINTMENT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE


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First Line: Hence! Thou fiend of gloomy sway
Last Line: Dare her slow return to mourn!


Hence! thou fiend of gloomy sway,
That lov'st on withering blast to ride
O'er fond Illusion's air-built pride,
Sullen Spirit! Hence! Away!

Where Avarice lurks in sordid cell,
Or mad Ambition builds the dream,
Or Pleasure plots th' unholy scheme,
There with Guilt and Folly dwell!

But oh! when Hope on Wisdom's wing
Prophetic whispers pure delight,
Be distant far thy cank'rous blight,
Daemon of envenom'd sting!

Then haste thee, Nymph of balmy gales!
Thy poet's prayer, sweet May! attend!
Oh! place my Parent and my Friend
'Mid her lovely native vales.

Peace, that lists the woodlark's strains,
Health, that breathes divinest treasures,
Laughing Hours, and social Pleasures,
Wait my friend in Cambria's plains.

Affection there with mingled ray
Shall pour at once the raptures high
Of Filial and Maternal Joy --
Haste thee then, Delightful May!

And oh! may Spring's fair flowrets fade,
May Summer cease her cease her limbs to lave
In cooling stream, may Autumn grave
Yellow o'er the corn-cloath'd glade,

Ere from sweet retirement torn
She seek again the crowded mart!
Nor thou, my selfish selfish heart,
Dare her slow return to mourn!




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