Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 17721834555. Glycine’s Song
A SUNNY shaft did I behold, | |
From sky to earth it slanted: | |
And poised therein a bird so bold— | |
Sweet bird, thou wert enchanted! | |
He sank, he rose, he twinkled, he troll’d | 5 |
Within that shaft of sunny mist; | |
His eyes of fire, his beak of gold, | |
All else of amethyst! | |
And thus he sang: ‘Adieu! adieu! | |
Love’s dreams prove seldom true. | 10 |
The blossoms, they make no delay: | |
The sparking dew-drops will not stay. | |
Sweet month of May, | |
We must away; | |
Far, far away! | 15 |
To-day! to-day!’ |