O sleep, my babe
July 6, 2023You may forget but
July 6, 2023From “Phantasmion” – He Came Unlook’d For
HE came unlook’d for, undesir’d,
A sunrise in the northern sky,
More than the brightest dawn admir’d,
To shine and then forever fly.
His love, conferr’d without a claim,
Perchance was like the fitful blaze,
Which lives to light a steadier flame,
And, while that strengthens, fast decays.
Glad fawn along the forest springing,
Gay birds that breeze-like stir the leaves,
Why hither haste, no message bringing,
To solace one that deeply grieves?
Thou star that dost the skies adorn,
So brightly heralding the day,
Bring one more welcome than the morn,
Or still in night’s dark prison stay.
Sara Coleridge
Sara Coleridge (1802-1852) was an English writer and translator who is best known for her memoir of her father, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. She also translated several works of German literature into English and was a respected literary critic.