Sonnet..How I Felt When The Nurse First Presented My Infant To Me

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Title:     Sonnet..How I Felt When The Nurse First Presented My Infant To Me
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

SONNET TO A FRIEND WHO ASKED, HOW I FELT WHEN THE NURSE FIRST PRESENTED MY
INFANT TO ME

Charles! my slow heart was only sad, when first
I scann'd that face of feeble infancy:
For dimly on my thoughtful spirit burst
All I had been, and all my child might be!
But when I saw it on its mother's arm,
And hanging at her bosom (she the while
Bent o'er its features with a tearful smile)
Then I was thrill'd and melted, and most warm
Impress'd a father's kiss: and all beguil'd
Of dark remembrance and presageful fear,
I seem'd to see an angel-form appear--
'Twas even thine, belovéd woman mild!
So for the mother's sake the child was dear,
And dearer was the mother for the child.

1796.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Sonnet To A Friend Who Asked, How I Felt When The Nurse First Presented My Infant To Me

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