Sonnet: To the Autumnal Moon

Samuel Taylor Coleridge * Track #4 On The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol I

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Sonnet: To the Autumnal Moon by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Coleridge wrote this sonnet in 1788. The theme of this poem, which emerges in the ninth line, is the changefulness of hope. Like the Moon passing behind a wayward cloud, hope can sometimes be “hid behind the dragon-wing’d Despair” (11). However, one’s feelings of despair are only temporary; in time,...

Sonnet: To the Autumnal Moon Annotated

Mild Splendour of the various-vested Night!
&nbspMother of wildly-working visions! hail!
I watch thy gliding, while with watery light
&nbspThy weak eye glimmers through a fleecy veil;
And when thou lovest thy pale orb to shroud
&nbspBehind the gather'd blackness lost on high;
And when thou dartest from the wind-rent cloud
&nbspThy placid lightning o'er the awaken'd sky.

Ah such is Hope! as changeful and as fair!
Now dimly peering on the wistful sight;
&nbspNow hid behind the dragon-wing'd Despair:
But soon emerging in her radiant might
&nbspShe o'er the sorrow-clouded breast of Care
Sails, like a meteor kindling in its flight.

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