The Mind

Fragment: I stand alone, nor tho' my heart should break

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772–1834

From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)

The Mind

I stand alone, nor tho' my heart should break,
Have I, to whom I may complain or speak.
Here I stand, a hopeless man and sad,
Who hoped to have seen my Love, my Life.
And strange it were indeed, could I be glad
Remembering her, my soul's betrothéd wife.
For in this world no creature that has life
Was e'er to me so gracious and so good.
Her loss is to my Heart, like the Heart's blood.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Fragment: I stand alone, nor tho' my heart should break.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/485/.

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