Love
Not at Home
From Poems of Coleridge, selected by Arthur Symons (1905)
Love
That Jealousy may rule a mind
Where Love could never be
I know; but ne'er expect to find
Love without Jealousy.
She has a strange cast in her ee,
A swart sour-visaged maid--
But yet Love's own twin-sister she,
His house-mate and his shade.
Ask for her and she'll be denied:--
What then? they only mean
Their mistress has lain down to sleep,
And can't just then be seen.
Cite this poem
MLA
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Not at Home.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/53/.
Chicago
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Not at Home.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/53/.
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