IIA grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear,       A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief,       Which finds no natural outlet, no relief,           In word, or sigh, or tear – O Lady! in this wan and heartless mood, To other thoughts by yonder throstle woo'd,       All this long eve, so balmy and serene, Have I been gazing on the western sky,       And its peculiar tint of yellow green: And still I gaze – and with how blank an eye! And those thin clouds above, in flakes and bars, That give away their motion to the stars; Those stars, that glide behind them or between, Now sparkling, now bedimmed, but always seen: Yon crescent Moon as fixed as if it grew In its own cloudless, starless lake of blue; I see them all so excellently fair, I see, not feel how beautiful they are! I I I          My genial spirits fail;          And what can these avail To lift the smothering weight from off my breast?          It were a vain endeavour,           Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
About This Quote

In the poem, the speaker is grieving over a loved one who has died. She has lost that person from her life and does not know how to deal with the loss. She is empty and numb from grief. The speaker feels she can do nothing to alleviate her pain and emptiness.

She needs something to help lift the burden of this loss off of her mind and heart, but all she has is a wall of aching sadness in her heart, a void in her life, and a dreariness in her mind. Her grief is so heavy that she cannot move or feel anything other than sadness.

Source: The Complete Poems

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