The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume I Part 166

Methinks I see them now, the triune group, With straiten'd arms uprais'd, the Palms aslope Robe touching Robe beneath, and blending as they flow.

Letter, July 1829.

[15] doth] will Keepsake, 1833.

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Then like a Statue with a Statue's strength, And with a Smile, the Sister Fay of those Who at meek Evening's Close To teach our Grief repose, Their freshly-gathered store of Moonbeams wreath On Marble Lips, a Chantrey has made breathe.

Letter, July 1829.

TO MISS A. T.[482:1]

Verse, pictures, music, thoughts both grave and gay, Remembrances of dear-loved friends away, On spotless page of virgin white displayed, Such should thine Alb.u.m be, for such art thou, sweet maid!

1829.

FOOTNOTES:

[482:1] First published in _Essays on His Own Times_, 1850, iii, 998 with the t.i.tle 'To Miss A. T.' First collected in 1893, with the t.i.tle 'In Miss E. Trevenen's Alb.u.m'. 'Miss A. T.' may have been a misprint for Miss E. T., but there is no MS. authority for the t.i.tle prefixed in 1893.

LINES[483:1]

WRITTEN IN COMMONPLACE BOOK OF MISS BARBOUR, DAUGHTER OF THE MINISTER OF THE U.S.A. TO ENGLAND

Child of my muse! in Barbour's gentle hand Go cross the main: thou seek'st no foreign land: 'Tis not the clod beneath our feet we name Our country. Each heaven-sanctioned tie the same, Laws, manners, language, faith, ancestral blood, 5 Domestic honour, awe of womanhood:-- With kindling pride thou wilt rejoice to see Britain with elbow-room and doubly free!

Go seek thy countrymen! and if one scar Still linger of that fratricidal war, 10 Look to the maid who brings thee from afar; Be thou the olive-leaf and she the dove, And say, I greet thee with a brother's love!

S. T. COLERIDGE.

GROVE, HIGHGATE, _August_ 1829.

FOOTNOTES:

[483:1] First published in the _New York Mirror_ for Dec. 19, 1829: reprinted in _The Athenaeum_, May 3, 1884: first collected in 1893.

LINENOTES:

t.i.tle] lines written . . . daughter of the late Minister to England.

Athenaeum 1884.

SONG, _ex improviso_[483:2]

ON HEARING A SONG IN PRAISE OF A LADY'S BEAUTY

'Tis not the lily-brow I prize, Nor roseate cheeks, nor sunny eyes, Enough of lilies and of roses!

A thousand-fold more dear to me The gentle look that Love discloses,-- 5 The look that Love alone can see!

_Keepsake_, 1830.

FOOTNOTES:

[483:2] First published in _The Keepsake_ for 1830: included in _Essays on His Own Times_, 1850, iii. 997. First collected in _P. and D. W._, 1877-80.

LINENOTES:

t.i.tle] To a Lady Essays, &c. 1850.

[5-6]

The look that gentle Love discloses,-- That look which Love alone can see.

Essays, &c. 1850.

LOVE AND FRIENDs.h.i.+P OPPOSITE[484:1]

Her attachment may differ from yours in degree, Provided they are both of one kind; But Friends.h.i.+p, how tender so ever it be, Gives no accord to Love, however refined.

Love, that meets not with Love, its true nature revealing, 5 Grows ashamed of itself, and demurs: If you cannot lift hers up to your state of feeling, You must lower down your state to hers.

? 1830.

FOOTNOTES:

[484:1] First published as No. ii of 'Lightheartednesses in Rhyme' in _Friends.h.i.+p's Offering_ for 1834: included in _P. W._, 1834.

LINENOTES:

t.i.tle] In Answer To A Friend's Question F. O.