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Poems by Hartley Coleridge

With a Memoir of his Life by his Brother. In Two Volumes

Coleridge, Hartley (1796-1849)

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The earliest wish I ever knew
Was woman's kind regard to win;
I felt it long ere passion grew,
Ere such a wish could be a sin.

And still it lasts;—the yearning ache
No cure has found, no comfort known:
If she did love, 'twas for my sake,
She could not love me for her own.