Love
Desire
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Love
Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame;
It is the reflex of our earthly frame,
That takes its meaning from the nobler part,
And but translates the language of the heart.
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Codex Note
? 1830
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Desire.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/280/.
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