Lines written at Shurton Bars

Samuel Taylor Coleridge * Track #99 On The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol I

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Lines written at Shurton Bars by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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&nbsp       &nbsp       &nbsp       &nbspGood verse most good, and bad verse then seems better
&nbsp       &nbsp       &nbsp       &nbspReceiv'd from absent friend by way of Letter.
&nbsp       &nbsp       &nbsp       &nbspFor what so sweet can labour'd lays impart
&nbsp       &nbsp       &nbsp       &nbspAs one rude rhyme warm from a friendly heart?—Anon.

Nor travels my meandering eye
The starry wilderness on high;
&nbspNor now with curious sight
I mark the glow-worm, as I pass,
Move with 'green radiance'through the grass,
&nbspAn emerald of light.

O ever present to my view!
My wafted spirit is with you,
&nbspAnd soothes your boding fears:
I see you all oppressed with gloom
Sit lonely in that cheerless room—
&nbspAh me! You are in tears!

Belovéd Woman! did you fly
Chill'd Friendship's dark disliking eye,
&nbspOr Mirth's untimely din?
With cruel weight these trifles press
A temper sore with tenderness,
&nbspWhen aches the void within.

But why with sable wand unblessed
Should Fancy rouse within my breast
&nbspDim-visag'd shapes of Dread?
Untenanting its beauteous clay
My Sara's soul has wing'd its way,
&nbspAnd hovers round my head!

I felt it prompt the tender Dream,
When slowly sank the day's last gleam;
&nbspYou rous'd each gentler sense,
As sighing o'er the Blossom's bloom
Meek Evening wakes its soft perfume
&nbspWith viewless influence.

And hark, my Love! The sea-breeze moans
Through yon reft house! O'er rolling stones
&nbspIn bold ambitious sweep
The onward-surging tides supply
The silence of the cloudless sky
&nbspWith mimic thunders deep.

Dark reddening from the channell'd Isle
(Where stands one solitary pile
&nbspUnslated by the blast)
The Watchfire, like a sullen star
Twinkles to many a dozing Tar
&nbspRude cradled on the mast.

Even there—beneath that light-house tower—
In the tumultuous evil hour
&nbspEre Peace with Sara came, 45
Time was, I should have thought it sweet
To count the echoings of my feet,
&nbspAnd watch the storm-vex'd flame.

And there in black soul-jaundic'd fit
A sad gloom-pamper'd Man to sit, 50
&nbspAnd listen to the roar:
When mountain surges bellowing deep
With an uncouth monster-leap
&nbspPlung'd foaming on the shore.

Then by the lightning's blaze to mark 55
Some toiling tempest-shatter'd bark;
&nbspHer vain distress-guns hear;
And when a second sheet of light
Flash'd o'er the blackness of the night—
&nbspTo see no vessel there!

But Fancy now more gaily sings;
Or if awhile she droop her wings,
&nbspAs skylarks 'mid the corn,
On summer fields she grounds her breast:
The oblivious poppy o'er her nest
&nbspNods, till returning morn.

O mark those smiling tears, that swell
The open'd rose! From heaven they fell,
&nbspAnd with the sun-beam blend.
Blest visitations from above,
Such are the tender woes of Love
&nbspFostering the heart they bend!

When stormy Midnight howling round
Beats on our roof with clattering sound,
&nbspTo me your arms you'll stretch:
Great God! you'll say—To us so kind,
O shelter from this loud bleak wind
&nbspThe houseless, friendless wretch!

The tears that tremble down your cheek,
Shall bathe my kisses chaste and meek
&nbspIn Pity's dew divine;
And from your heart the sighs that steal
Shall make your rising bosom feel
&nbspThe answering swell of mine!

How oft, my Love! with shapings sweet
I paint the moment, we shall meet!
&nbspWith eager speed I dart—
I seize you in the vacant air,
And fancy, with a husband's care
&nbspI press you to my heart!

'Tis said, in Summer's evening hour
Flashes the golden-colour'd flower
&nbspA fair electric flame:
And so shall flash my love-charg'd eye
When all the heart's big ecstasy
&nbspShoots rapid through the frame!

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