The author of "Kubla Kahn and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" at his romantic best.

The Presence Of Love

by 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 pulses 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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge