This poem's first stanza describes "white-flowered Jasmin and the broad-leav'd myrtle" as "meet emblems" of "Innocence and Love."
This poem's first stanza describes "white-flowered Jasmin and the broad-leav'd myrtle" as "meet emblems" of "Innocence and Love." This poem praises "the one life within us and abroad which meets all motion and becomes its soul" before declaring "Methinks, it should have been impossible" not to "love all things in a world so filled." This poem's concluding palinode disparages the speaker's "dim and unhallowed" thoughts and praises the "heart-honored maid" who brought his thought to Jesus, "who with his saving mercies healed me." Set in a cottage in Clevedon, it is the first of its author's "Conversation Poems." The speaker of this poem wonders if "one intellectual breeze, at once the soul of each, and God of all" could arouse thought in "all animated nature," just as the wind brings music from the title object. Addressed to "my pensive Sara," for 10 points, name this Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem that compares the human imagination to the title instrument.
This poem's first stanza describes "white-flowered Jasmin and the broad-leav'd myrtle" as "meet emblems" of "Innocence and Love."
"The Eolian Harp"