Anna and Harland

Samuel Taylor Coleridge * Track #15 On The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol I

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Anna and Harland by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The year of this poem’s writing is uncertain, but it was probably composed in the first half of the 1790’s. Its tragic and ghostly themes and dark imagery foreshadow Coleridge’s more mature works, especially “Christabel.”

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Anna and Harland Annotated

Within these wilds was Anna wont to rove
&nbspWhile Harland told his love in many a sigh,
&nbspBut stern on Harland roll'd her brother's eye,
They fought, they fell—her brother and her love!

To Death's dark house did grief-worn Anna haste,
&nbspYet here her pensive ghost delights to stay;
&nbspOft pouring on the winds the broken lay—
And hark, I hear her—'twas the passing blast.

I love to sit upon her tomb's dark grass,
&nbspThen Memory backward rolls Time's shadowy tide;
&nbspThe tales of other days before me glide:
With eager thought I seize them as they pass;
For fair, tho' faint, the forms of Memory gleam,
Like Heaven's bright beauteous bow reflected in the stream.

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