Thou gentle Look, that didst my soul beguile, <br />Why hast thou left me? Still in some fond dream <br />Revisit my sad heart, auspicious Smile! <br />As falls on closing flowers the lunar beam: <br />What time, in sickly mood, at parting day <br />I lay me down and think of happier years; <br />Of joys, that glimmered in Hope's twilight ray, <br />Then left me darkling in a vale of tears. <br />O pleasant days of Hope -- forever flown! <br />Could I recall you!-- But that thought is vain. <br />Availeth not Persuasion's sweetest tone <br />To lure the fleet-winged travellers back again: <br />Yet fair, tho' faint, their images shall gleam <br />Like the bright Rainbow on an evening stream.<br /><br />Samuel Taylor Coleridge<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-iii-12/
