To the Evening Star

Samuel Taylor Coleridge * Track #16 On The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol I

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To the Evening Star by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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A conventional poem written in the early 1790s. It is addressed to the “Evening Star,” a classical epithet for the planet Venus. As Venus is also the name of the Roman goddess of love, it is, naturally, a love sonnet, in which the poet compares “the maid I love” (7) to the appearance of Venus in the...

To the Evening Star Annotated

O meek attendant of Sol's setting blaze,
I hail, sweet star, thy chaste effulgent glow;
On thee full oft with fixéd eye I gaze
Till I, methinks, all spirit seem to grow.
O first and fairest of the starry choir,
O loveliest 'mid the daughters of the night,
Must not the maid I love like thee inspire
Pure joy and calm Delight?

Must she not be, as is thy placid sphere
Serenely brilliant? Whilst to gaze a while
Be all my wish 'mid Fancy's high career
E'en till she quit this scene of earthly toil;
Then Hope perchance might fondly sigh to join
Her spirit in thy kindred orb, O Star benign!

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