Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And in Life’s noisiest hour,
There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee,
The heart’s Self-solace and soliloquy.
 
You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within;
And to the leading Love-throb in the Heart
Thro’ all my Being, thro’ my pulse’s beat;
You lie in all my many Thoughts, like Light,
Like the fair light of Dawn, or summer Eve
On rippling Stream, or cloud-reflecting Lake.
 
And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you,
How oft! I bless the Lot that made me love you.

The title "The presence of love” could imply that love could disappear any time , here now and gone. This is a love poem about someone Coleridge felt deeply about. An idealistic relationship. Coleridge attended Christ’s Hospital School in London, where he met lifelong friend Charles Lamb. While in London, he also befriended a classmate named Tom Evans, who introduced Coleridge to his family. Coleridge fell in love with Tom’s older sister, Mary. He says that also he was in "Life's noisiest hour" (could be he was busy with work and whatever else), he couldn't stop on to declare how lucky he is and how great she is. There is lots of light, he uses the water to highlight the sparkling effect effect; he feels his love like the heat of the sun. We can feel his melancholic longing voice

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