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— Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

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In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly.

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MS. S. T. C.

48 lines
Samuel Taylor Coleridge·1772–1834
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33] the glad] _Georgian_ MS. S. T. C. [34] the swain] its form MS. S. T. C. [35] _Note._ A parenthetical reflection of the Author's. MS. O. [38] wings] wing MS. S. T. C. GENEVIEVE[19:1] Maid of my Love, sweet Genevieve!In Beauty's light you glide along:Your eye is like the Star of Eve,And sweet your voice, as Seraph's songYet not your heavenly beauty gives 5This heart with Passion soft to glow:Within your soul a voice there lives!It bids you hear the tale of Woe.When sinking low the sufferer wanBeholds no hand outstretch'd to save, 10Fair, as the bosom of the SwanThat rises graceful o'er the wave,I've seen your breast with pity heave,And _therefore_ love I you, sweet Genevieve! 1789-90. FOOTNOTES: [19:1] First published in the _Cambridge Intelligencer_ for Nov. 1,1794: included in the editions of 1796, 1803, 1828, 1829, and 1834.Three MSS. are extant; (1) an autograph in a copy-book made for thefamily [_MS. O_]; (2) an autograph in a copy-book presented to Mrs.Estlin [_MS. E_]; and (3) a transcript included in a copy-book presentedto Sara Coleridge in 1823 [_MS. O (c)_]. In an unpublished letter datedDec. 18, 1807, Coleridge invokes the aid of Richard ['Conservation']Sharp on behalf of a 'Mrs. Brewman, who was elected a nurse to one ofthe wards of Christ's Hospital at the time that I was a boy there'. Hesays elsewhere that he spent full half the time from seventeen toeighteen in the sick ward of Christ's Hospital. It is doubtless to thisperiod, 1789-90, that _Pain_ and _Genevieve_, which, according to aChrist's Hospital tradition, were inspired by his 'Nurse's Daughter',must be assigned. 'This little poem was written when the Author was a boy'--_Note 1796,1803_. LINENOTES: Title] Sonnet iii. MS. O: Ode MS. E: A Sonnet MS. O (c): Effusion xvii.1796. The heading, _Genevieve_, first appears in 1803. [2] Thou glid'st along [so, too, in ll. 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 13, 14] MS. O,MS. E, MS. O (c), C. I. [4] Thy voice is lovely as the MS. E: Thy voice is soft, &c. MS. O (c),C. I. [8] It bids thee hear the tearful plaint of woe MS. E. [10] no . . . save] no friendly hand that saves MS. E. outstretch'd]stretcht out MS. O, MS. O (c), C. I. [12] the wave] quick-rolling waves MS. E.
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