<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512886" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To A Friend, With An Unfinished Poem</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus far my scanty brain hath built the rhyme<br>Elaborate and swelling; ­ yet the heart<br>Not owns it. From thy spirit-breathing powers<br>I ask not now, my friend! the aiding verse<br>Tedious to thee, and from thy anxious thought<br>Of dissonant mood. In fancy (well I know)<br>From business wand'ring far and local cares,<br>Thou creepest round a dear-loved sister's bed<br>With noiseless step, and watchest the faint look,<br>Soothing each pang with fond solicitude,<br>And tenderest tones medicinal of love.<br>I, too, a sister had, an only sister --<br>She loved me dearly, and I doted on her;<br>To her I pour'd forth all my puny sorrows;<br>(As a sick patient in a nurse's arms,)<br>And of the heart those hidden maladies ­<br>That e'en from friendship's eye will shrink ashamed.<br>O! I have waked at midnight, and have wept<br>Because she was not! ­ Cheerily, dear Charles!<br>Thou thy best friend shalt cherish many a year;<br>Such warm presages feel I of high hope!<br>For not uninterested the dear maid<br>I've view'd ­ her soul affectionate yet wise,<br>Her polish'd wit as mild as lambent glories<br>That play around a sainted infant's head.<br>He knows (the Spirit that in secret sees,<br>Of whose omniscient and all-spreading love<br>Aught to implore were impotence of mind!)<br>That my mute thoughts are sad before his throne, ­<br>Prepared, when He his healing ray vouchsafes,<br>Thanksgiving to pour forth with lifted heart,<br>And praise him gracious with a brother's joy!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dec. 1794</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Samuel+Taylor+Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512886" data-title="To A Friend, With An Unfinished Poem de Samuel Taylor Coleridge" data-description="Thus far my scanty brain hath built the rhyme Elaborate and swelling; ­ yet the heart Not owns it. From thy spirit-breathing powers I ask not now, my friend! the aiding verse Tedious to thee, and from thy anxious thought Of dissonant mood. In fan..."></div> </div> </div>

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