Sonnet: To The River Otter

Samuel Taylor Coleridge * Track #46 On The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol I

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Sonnet: To The River Otter by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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This is a sonnet Coleridge wrote about the river that ran through his birthplace, Ottery St. Mary, called the River Otter. Coleridge wrote this poem in 1793.

The theme of this poem, like “The Gentle Look,” is the non-recoverable nature of the past, specifically childhood.

Sonnet: To The River Otter Annotated

Dear native Brook! wild Streamlet of the West!
How many various-fated years have past,
What happy and what mournful hours, since last
I skimm'd the smooth thin stone along thy breast,
Numbering its light leaps! yet so deep imprest
Sink the sweet scenes of childhood, that mine eyes
I never shut amid the sunny ray,
But straight with all their tints thy waters rise,
Thy crossing plank, thy marge with willows grey,
And bedded sand that vein'd with various dyes
Gleam'd through thy bright transparence! On my way,
Visions of Childhood! oft have ye beguil'd
Lone manhood's cares, yet waking fondest sighs:
Ah! that once more I were a careless Child!

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