A Moment

By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 1861–1907 Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
The clouds had made a crimson crown
    Above the mountains high.
The stormy sun was going down
    In a stormy sky.

Why did you let your eyes so rest on me,
    And hold your breath between?
In all the ages this can never be
    As if it had not been.

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Poet Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 1861–1907

POET’S REGION England

SCHOOL / PERIOD Victorian

Subjects Love, Romantic Love, First Love

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Mary Coleridge was well known in her day as a novelist and essayist, and hardly at all as a poet; now, she is better known for her poetry. In a thirteen-year period, she published five novels; for twenty-seven years she published short stories and critical essays. Near the end of her life, she also wrote an artist's biography, at his request. Known by her friends for her merry though shy disposition and her whimsy, for "the rare . . .

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SUBJECT Love, Romantic Love, First Love

POET’S REGION England

SCHOOL / PERIOD Victorian

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Originally appeared in Poetry magazine.

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