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carnage and horror of devastation and dismay, it may afford the mind a temporary relief to wander to the magic haunts of the Muses, to bowers and fountains which the despoiling powers of war have never visited, and where the lover pours forth his complaint, or receives the recompense of his constancy. The whole of the subsequent Love Chant is in a warm and impassioned strain. The fifth and last stanzas are, we think, the best.
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It is not amongst the least pleasing of our recollections, that we have been the means of gratifying the public taste with some exquisite pieces of Original Poetry. For many of them we have been indebted to the author of the Circassian's Love Chant. Amidst images of war and woe, amidst scenes of
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of 1798, but at the last moment the sheets containing it were cancelled and "
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the poem was originally entitled "Lewti; or the Circassian's Love Chant".
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To sleep by day and wake all night.I know the place where Lewti lies,
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And yet, thou didst not look unkind.I saw a vapour in the sky,
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Between lines 52–3:This hand should make his life-blood flow,
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On the gently-swelling wave.Oh! that she saw me in a dream,
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If Lewti never will be kind.The little cloud—it floats away
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Depart; for Lewti is not kind.I saw a cloud of palest hue,
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Between lines 14–15:I saw the white waves, o'er and o'er,
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The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 253–56, 1049–62. 525:  Bedims the star that shines behind it! 314:  Your movements to some heavenly tune! 1425: 1235:Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement 567:Lines 69–71:  Had I the enviable power 344:  And dreamt that I had died for care; 247:  Drinks in as deep a flush of beauty! 330:  Voice of the Night! had I the power 750:"'Lewti, or the Circassian Love-Chant' (1798)" 692:"Coleridge's "Lewti": The Biography of a Poem" 306:  They plunge into the gentle river. 302:  Slip the crumbling banks for ever: 243:  And with such joy I find my Lewti; 784: 318:  To see you move beneath the moon, 235:  Till it reached the moon at last: 533:  To see my Lewti's eyes to-morrow 378:Poster advertising Circassian hair dye, 1843 348:  Yet fair withal, as spirits are! 289:  Of Lady fair—that died for love. 283:  Perhaps the breezes that can fly 267:  And now 'tis whiter than before! 215:  But the rock shone brighter far, 798: 529:  Alas! if I knew how to find it. 334:And creep, like thee, with soundless tread, 291:For maids, as well as youths, have perished 271:  When, Lewti! on my couch I lie, 957:Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie 791: 777: 661: 537:  Of pity and repentant sorrow! 326:  It is a breezy jasmine-bower, 293:From fruitless love too fondly cherished. 259:  Away it passes from the moon! 229:  Onward to the moon it passed; 183:the following note accompanies the poem: 165:"Lewti" was to have been included in the 175:" substituted. A copy which belonged to 747: 689: 662:Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, ed. (1912). 558:, S. L., p. , for 'Slush' read 'Hush'). 316:O beauteous birds! 'tis such a pleasure 253:  Away it goes; away so soon! 231:Still brighter and more bright it grew, 14: 1426: 723: 324:When silent night has closed her eyes: 312:O beauteous birds! methinks ye measure 295:Nay, treacherous image! leave my mind— 275:Nay, treacherous image! leave my mind— 263:  Ever fading more and more, 249:Nay, treacherous image! leave my mind, 209:The Moon was high, the moonlight gleam 128:"Lewti, or the Circassian Love-chaunt" 772: 539:Nay treach'rous image! leave my mind— 521:On that small vapour, thin and white! 354:Soothe, gentle image! soothe my mind! 158:, 1817, 1828, 1829, and 1834. In the 142:This poem was first published in the 1230:The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem 706: 631: 629: 627: 625: 623: 621: 569:To creep unseen with noiseless tread 328:The nightingale sings o'er her head: 308:The river-swans have heard my tread. 287:Have snatched aloft the lawny shroud 285:  Now below and now above, 257:Its hues are dim, its hues are grey— 217:The rock half sheltered from my view 211:  And the shadow of a star 197: 31:Lewti, or the Circassian Love-chaunt 18:Lewti, or the Circassian Love-chaunt 535:Shine brightly thro' as thin a mist 489:Nay, treach'rous image from my mind 221:So shines my Lewti's forehead fair, 24: 683: 579:)O beating heart had I the power.( 485:And Lewti's smiling mouth can shew 356:To-morrow Lewti may be kind. 352:Her bosom heave, and heave for me! 269:As white as my poor cheek will be, 201:At midnight by the stream I roved, 116:Sibylline Leaves (Coleridge)/Lewti 25: 1445: 917:Monody on the Death of Chatterton 741: 618: 531:And O! how sweet it were, I wist, 527:And pity dwells in Lewti's breast 346:All pale and wasted I would seem, 340:As these two swans together heave 336:I then might view her bosom white 320:I would it were your true delight 310:And startle from their reedy bed. 304:Like echoes to a distant thunder, 300:Hush! my heedless feet from under 237:Then the cloud was wholly bright, 219:By pendent boughs of tressy yew.— 876: 670: 648:(1898), edited by T. Hutchinson. 483:Now twinkling regular and white, 481:Now disappearing from the sight, 477:But only saw them o'er and o'er, 471:I heard no murmur of their roar, 469:All at once they broke in light; 465:Break against the distant shore. 411: 384: 370: 233:With floating colours not a few, 223:Gleaming through her sable hair. 110: 1298:The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 848:Person on business from Porlock 541:Ah, Lewti! why art thou unkind? 523:So thin it scarcely, I protest, 491:Depart; for Lewti is not kind.( 479:Break against the curved shore: 473:Nor ever I beheld them flowing, 332:That leafy labyrinth to thread, 281:I ne'er beheld so thin a cloud: 279:Thin, and white, and very high; 261:How mournfully it seems to fly, 241:And so with many a hope I seek, 1240:This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison 896:The Destruction of the Bastile 748:Roberts, Adam (14 June 2016). 726:"Notes on Coleridge's "Lewti"" 638: 590: 561: 544: 511: 498: 475:Neither coming, neither going; 457: 350:I'd die indeed, if I might see 297:For Lewti never will be kind. 265:To joyless regions of the sky— 255:Alas! it has no power to stay: 207:Depart; for Lewti is not kind. 137: 13: 1: 1021:Lines Written at Shurton Bars 611: 400: 273:A dying man for love of thee. 245:And even so my pale wan cheek 1014:Lines on an Autumnal Evening 945:The Ballad of the Dark Ladié 635:Coleridge, ed. 1912, p. 253. 239:With a rich and amber light! 225:Image of Lewti! from my mind 213:Heaved upon Tamaha's stream; 205:Image of Lewti! from my mind 7: 487:As white and regular a row. 467:All at once upon the sight, 428: 338:Heaving lovely to my sight, 203:To forget the form I loved. 134:, first published in 1798. 10: 1450: 931:Pain: Composed in Sickness 853:Coleridge's theory of life 724:Raysor, Thomas M. 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Index

Lewti, or the Circassian Love-chaunt
Meter
Iambic tetrameter
Rhyme scheme
Sibylline Leaves (Coleridge)/Lewti
Wikisource
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Morning Post
Sibylline Leaves
Lyrical Ballads
The Nightingale
Southey
Poster advertising Circassian hair dye, 1843
Henry Hall Pickersgill: A Circassian Beauty, c. 1843–50
Henry Hall Pickersgill
Circassian lady, possibly Nazikeda Kadın
Nazikeda Kadın
Circassian beauty
Circassian music
Orientalism






The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Coleridge's "Lewti": The Biography of a Poem"
"The Intersection of Rhythmic and Cultural Meaning in Coleridge's 'Lewti'"

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