From “Phantasmion” - He Came Unlook'd For

Sara Coleridge 1802 (Keswick, Cumberland) – 1852 (London)



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.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GAGA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 618
Words 101
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

Sara Coleridge

Sara Coleridge was an English author and translator. She was the third child, out of four, and only daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his wife Sara Fricker. more…

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