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Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

By Phantasmion. A Fairy Tale (1837). III. “Grief’s Heavy Hand”

Sarah Coleridge (1802–1850)

GRIEF’S heavy hand hath sway’d the lute;

’Tis henceforth mute:

Though pleasure woo, the strings no more respond

To touches light as fond,

Silenced as if by an enchanter’s wand.

Do thou brace up each slackened chord,

Love, gentle lord;

Then shall the lute pour grateful melodies

On every breeze,

Strains that celestial choristers may please.