Questions And Answers In The Court Of Love

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Title:     Questions And Answers In The Court Of Love
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

[Vide _ante_, p. 409.]

Why is my Love like the Sun?

1. The Dawn = the presentiment of my Love.

No voice as yet had made the air
Be music with thy name: yet why
That obscure [over _aching_] Hope: that yearning Sigh?
That sense of Promise everywhere?
Beloved! flew thy spirit by?

2. The Sunrise = the suddenness, the all-at-once of Love--and the first silence--the beams of Light fall first on the distance, the interspace still dark.

3. The Cheerful Morning--the established Day-light universal.

4. The Sunset--who can behold it, and think of the Sun-rise? It takes all the thought to itself. The Moon-reflected Light--soft, melancholy, warmthless--the absolute purity (nay, it is always _pure_, but), the incorporeity of Love in absence--Love _per se_ is a Potassium--it can subsist by itself, tho' in presence it has a natural and necessary combination with the comburent principle. All other Lights (the fixed Stars) not borrowed from the absent Sun--Lights for other worlds, not for me. I see them and admire, but they irradiate nothing.

[The end]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Questions And Answers In The Court Of Love

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