The Sigh

Samuel Taylor Coleridge * Track #61 On The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol I

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The Sigh by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Written in 1794 and addressed to Mary Evans (1770 – 1843), whom Coleridge met in 1788. Coleridge was in love with Evans for several years, but did not tell her of his feelings. In 1795 Evans married a man named Pryer Todd.

1794 was the year that Coleridge met Robert Southey (1774 – 1843). The two y...

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When Youth his faery reign began
Ere Sorrow had proclaim'd me man;
While Peace the present hour beguil'd,
And all the lovely Prospect smil'd;
Then Mary! 'mid my lightsome glee
I heav'd the painless Sigh for thee.

And when, along the waves of woe,
My harass'd Heart was doom'd to know
The frantic burst of Outrage keen,
And the slow Pang that gnaws unseen;
Then shipwreck'd on Life's stormy sea
I heaved an anguish'd Sigh for thee!

But soon Reflection's power imprest
A stiller sadness on my breast;
And sickly Hope with waning eye
Was well content to droop and die:
I yielded to the stern decree,
Yet heav'd a languid Sigh for thee!

And though in distant climes to roam,
A wanderer from my native home,
I fain would soothe the sense of Care,
And lull to sleep the Joys that were!
Thy Image may not banish'd be—
Still, Mary! still I sigh for thee.

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