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Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Desire


Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame;
It is the reflex of our earthly frame,
That takes its meaning from the nobler part,
And but translates the language of the heart. 



Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Samuel Taylor Coleridge's other poems:
  1. Home-Sick. Written In Germany
  2. Duty Surviving Self-Love, the Only Sure Friend of Declining Life
  3. To the Autumnal Moon
  4. To a Lady, Offended by a Sportive Observation That Women Have No Souls
  5. What Is an Epigram?


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Matthew Arnold Desire ("Thou, who dost dwell alone")
  • Thomas Traherne Desire ("For giving me desire")
  • George Russell Desire ("WITH Thee a moment! Then what dreams have play!")
  • Emily Dickinson Desire ("Who never wanted, - maddest joy")

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