by Coleridge · Cluster: Unrequited Frustrated Love · Unattainable Beloved · Petrarchan Sonnet
Abstract
A brief lyric likening love’s first hope to Eve’s first star and a soft south-west wind over Ceres’ golden fields. Themes: romantic love, hope, nature imagery.
Connections
Motifs: Stars, Wind Themes & Concepts: Romantic Love, Innocence and Experience Forms & Genres: Lyric Historical References: Greek Mythology
Testo integrale / Full text
O fair is Love’s first hope to gentle mind!
As Eve’s first star thro’ fleecy cloudlet peeping;
And sweeter than the gentle south-west wind.
O’er willowy meads, and shadow’d waters creeping,
And Ceres’ golden fields; — the sultry hind 5
Meets it with brow uplift, and stays his reaping.
? 1824.