_With answering care_, i.e., with sympathetic care.


_A charm that lulls to sleep_. Charm is here in its proper
sense: that of a thing pleasing to the fancy is derivative.


_A shade that follows wealth or fame_. A shade = a ghost or phantom.


_Swift mantling_, &c. Spreading quickly over, like a cloak or mantle.


_Where heaven and you reside_ = where you, whose only thoughts are of
Heaven, reside.


_Whom love has taught to stray_. This use of the word "taught" for
"made" or "forced," is taken from a Latin idiom, as in Virgil, "He
_teaches_ the woods to ring with the name of Amaryllis." It is stronger
than "made" or "forced," and implies, as here, that she had forgotten
all but the wandering life that is now hers.


_He had but only me_. But or only is redundant.


_To emulate his mind_ = to be equal to his mind in purity.