The book of British ballads . ENEVIEVE. This exquisitely beautiful ballad is the com-position of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose rank is highamong the veritable poets of our age and country, andwhose poems will endure as long as the language inwhich they are written. It was composed at an earlyperiod of his life; and seems to be a record of someactual memory,—one of those ordinary events which stirthe heart and excite the imagination, and transmutecommon materials into pure gold. The leading sentimentis akin to that expressed in some lines equally touching,entitled, Recollections of Love :— As
The book of British ballads . ENEVIEVE. This exquisitely beautiful ballad is the com-position of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose rank is highamong the veritable poets of our age and country, andwhose poems will endure as long as the language inwhich they are written. It was composed at an earlyperiod of his life; and seems to be a record of someactual memory,—one of those ordinary events which stirthe heart and excite the imagination, and transmutecommon materials into pure gold. The leading sentimentis akin to that expressed in some lines equally touching,entitled, Recollections of Love :— As when a mother doth explore The rose-mark on her long-lost child,I met, I loved you, maiden mild!As whom I long had loved before,—So deeply had I been beguiled! You stood before me like a thought,A dream remembered in a dream ;But when those meek eyes first did seemTo tell me Love within you wrought,—O, Greta, dear domestic stream!— Has not, since then, Loves prompture deep,—Has not Loves whisper evermoreBeen cease
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