The Rose

Samuel Taylor Coleridge * Track #43 On The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol I

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The Rose by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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An allegorical love poem written by Coleridge in 1793. As with the poem “An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon” (and to some extent “Kisses”) written around the same time, the action of this poem is centered around the narrator encountering the God of Love, Cupid (who Coleridge sometimes refers to simply...

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As late each flower that sweetest blows
I pluck'd, the Garden's pride!
Within the petals of a Rose
A sleeping Love I spied.

Around his brows a beamy wreath
Of many a lucent hue;
All purple glow'd his cheek, beneath,
Inebriate with dew.

I softly seiz'd the unguarded Power,
Nor scared his balmy rest:
And placed him, caged within the flower,
On spotless Sara's breast.

But when unweeting of the guile
Awoke the prisoner sweet,
He struggled to escape awhile
And stamp'd his faery feet.

Ah! soon the soul-entrancing sight
Subdued the impatient boy!
He gazed! he thrill'd with deep delight!
Then clapp'd his wings for joy.

'And O!' he cried—'Of magic kind
What charms this Throne endear!
Some other Love let Venus find—
I'll fix my empire here.

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