Love
Love's First Hope
From Poems of Coleridge, selected by Arthur Symons (1905)
Love
O Fair is Love's first hope to gentle mind!
As Eve's first star thro' fleecy cloudlet peeping;
And sweeter than the gentle south-west wind,
O'er willowy meads, and shadow'd waters creeping,
And Ceres' golden fields;--the sultry hind
Meets it with brow uplift, and stays his reaping.
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MLA
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Love's First Hope.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/33/.
Chicago
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Love's First Hope.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/33/.
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