To A Young Lady. On Her Recovery From A Fever

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)



Why need I say, Louisa dear!
How glad I am to see you here,
A lovely convalescent;
Risen from the bed of pain and fear,
And feverish heat incessant.

The sunny showers, the dappled sky,
The little birds that warble high,
Their vernal loves commencing,
Will better welcome you than I
With their sweet influencing.

Believe me, while in bed you lay,
Your danger taught us all to pray:
You made us grow devouter!
Each eye looked up and seemed to say
How can we do without her?

Besides, what vexed us worse, we knew,
They have no need of such as you
In the place where you were going:
This World has angels all too few,
And Heaven is overflowing!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Scheme AXBAB CCDCD EEAEX FFDFD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 632
Words 123
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. more…

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