Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI


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First Line: His soul fared forth (as from the deep home-grove)
Last Line: Own them, a beacon to our centuries.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Poetry & Poets


HIS Soul fared forth (as from the deep home-grove
The father-songster plies the hour-long quest,)
To feed his soul-brood hungering in the nest;
But his warm Heart, the mother-bird, above
Their callow fledgling progeny still hove
With tented roof of wings and fostering breast
Till the Soul fed the soul-brood. Richly blest
From Heaven their growth, whose food was Human Love.

Yet ah! Like desert pools that show the stars
Once in long leagues,--even such the scarce-snatched hours
Which deepening pain left to his lordliest powers:--
Heaven lost through spider-trammelled prison-bars.
Six years, from sixty saved! Yet kindling skies
Own them, a beacon to our centuries.





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