I think that the woman that he is talking about is a close friend of his that has gone out on a limb and made her true feelings for him known. However, Coleridge politely and respectively tells her that he just wants to be friends without crushing her heart into a million pieces. Unfortunately her feelings still get hurt and she runs off. So now he is writing this poem to express his hopes and wishes for her to be happy again and not be depressed and gloomy all the time. In the poem he asks sleep to visit her and let her rest because I'm sure she's spent the whole night up crying her eyes out so far. Then he wishes for her to be happy again and for things to be the way they once were and for her heart to mended. This all expresses how much her truly cares for her, even if it is as a sister or something like that. I would hate to be in the situation that he was in.
-Samuel A. Oliver
P.S. I commented on Susan Berners. Bright Star, Brighter Flame
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