The Eolian Harp

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The Eolian Harp
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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"My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined
Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is"

The Eolian Harp is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1795 and published in his 1796 poetry collection. It is one of the early conversation poems and discusses Coleridge's anticipation of a marriage with Sara Fricker along with the pleasure of conjugal love. The central images of the poem is an Aeolian harp, an item that represents both order and wildness in nature. Along with the harp is a series of oppositional ideas that are reconciled with each other. "The Eolian Harp," in Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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Versions of The Eolian Harp include:

"Effusion 35, written at Cleveden" in Poems on Various Subjects (1796)
"Composed at Clevedon" in Poems (1803)
"The Eolian Harp" in Sibylline Leaves (1817)