| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Phantasmion. A Fairy Tale (1837)
III. “Grief’s Heavy Hand” | | By Sarah Coleridge (1802–1850) |
| | (From Chapter XIII.)
GRIEF’S heavy hand hath sway’d the lute; | |
| ’Tis henceforth mute: | |
| Though pleasure woo, the strings no more respond | |
| To touches light as fond, | |
| Silenced as if by an enchanter’s wand. | 5 |
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| Do thou brace up each slackened chord, | |
| Love, gentle lord; | |
| Then shall the lute pour grateful melodies | |
| On every breeze, | |
| Strains that celestial choristers may please. | 10 | | | |
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