Love
Ye gentle visitations of calm thought
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Love
Ye gentle visitations of calm thought—
Moods like the memories of happier earth,
Which come arrayed in thoughts of little worth,
Like stars in clouds by the weak winds enwrought,—
But that the clouds depart and stars remain,
While they remain, and ye, alas, depart!
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Codex Note
Written 1819. Published 1839.
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