To a Lady, with Falconer’s Shipwreck

Samuel Taylor Coleridge * Track #223 On The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol I

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To a Lady, with Falconer's Shipwreck by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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To a Lady, with Falconer’s Shipwreck Annotated

Ah! not by Cam or Isis, famous streams,
&nbspIn archéd groves, the youthful poet's choice;
Nor while half-listening, 'mid delicious dreams,
&nbspTo harp and song from lady's hand and voice;

Not yet while gazing in sublimer mood
&nbspOn cliff, or cataract, in Alpine dell;
Nor in dim cave with bladdery sea-weed strewed.
&nbspFraming wild fancies to the ocean's swell;

Our sea-bard sang this song! which still he sings,
&nbspAnd sings for thee, sweet friend! Hark, Pity, hark!
Now mounts, now totters on the tempest's wings,
&nbspNow groans, and shivers, the replunging bark!

'Cling to the shrouds!' In vain! The breakers roar—
&nbspDeath shrieks! With two alone of all his clan
Forlorn the poet paced the Grecian shore,
&nbspNo classic roamer, but a shipwrecked man!

Say then, what muse inspired these genial strains,
&nbspAnd lit his spirit to so bright a flame?
The elevating thought of suffered pains,
&nbspWhich gentle hearts shall mourn; but chief, the name

Of gratitude! remembrances of friend,
&nbspOr absent or no more! shades of the Past,
Which Love makes substance! Hence to thee I send,
&nbspO dear as long as life and memory last!

I send with deep regards of heart and head,
&nbspSweet maid, for friendship formed! this work to thee:
And thou, the while thou canst not choose but shed
&nbspA tear for Falconer, wilt remember me.

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