Hartley Coleridge Poems

SHE pass'd away like morning dew
   Before the sun was high;
So brief her time, she scarcely knew
   The meaning of a sigh.
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WHEN we were idlers with the loitering rills,
The need of human love we little noted:
   Our love was nature; and the peace that floated
On the white mist, and dwelt upon the hills,
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SHE is not fair to outward view,
As many maidens be,
Her loveliness I never knew
Until she smiled on me:
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STILL for the world he lives, and lives in bliss,
For God and for himself. Ten years and three
Have now elapsed since he was dead to me
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RESTLESS forms of living light
Quivering on your lucid wings,
Cheating still the curious sight
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LONG time a child, and still a child, when years
Had painted manhood on my cheek, was I, -
For yet I lived like one not born to die;
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SHE was a queen of noble Nature's crowning,
A smile of hers was like an act of grace;
She had no winsome looks, no pretty frowning,
Like daily beauties of the vulgar race:
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SHE is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be,
Her loveliness I never knew
   Until she smiled on me;
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If I have sinned in act, I may repent;
If I have erred in thought, I may disclaim
My silent error, and yet feel no shame ;
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YOUTH, thou art fled, - but where are all the charms
Which, though with thee they came, and passed with thee,
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