From “Phantasmion” - One Face Alone

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



ONE face alone, one face alone,  
       These eyes require;  
But, when that long’d-for sight is shown,  
       What fatal fire  
Shoots through my veins a keen and liquid flame,
That melts each fibre of my wasting frame!  
 
One voice alone, one voice alone,  
       I pine to hear;  
But, when its meek mellifluous tone  
       Usurps mine ear,
Those slavish chains about my soul are wound,  
Which ne’er, till death itself, can be unbound.  
 
One gentle hand, one gentle hand,  
       I fain would hold;  
But, when it seems at my command,
       My own grows cold;  
Then low to earth I bend in sickly swoon,  
Like lilies drooping ’mid the blaze of noon.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABABCC ADADEE FGFGHH
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 661
Words 111
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6

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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