Can someone figure out the meaning of this poem by Edgar Allan Poe?

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Can someone figure out the meaning of this poem by Edgar Allan Poe?

Romance who loves to nod and sing
With drowsy head and folded wing
Among the green leaves as they shake
Far down within some shadowy lake
To me a painted paroquet
Hath been — a most familiar bird —
Taught me my alphabet to say —
To lisp my very earliest word
While in the wild wood I did lie
A child — with a most knowing eye.
Of late, eternal Condor years
So shake the very air on high
With tumult, as they thunder by,
I hardly have had time for cares
Thro' gazing on th' unquiet sky!
And, when an hour with calmer wings
Its down upon my spirit flings —
That little time with lyre and rhyme
To while away — forbidden things!
My heart would feel to be a crime
Did it not tremble with the strings!

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This poem is actually supposed to be in two stanzas (10 lines then 11 lines)
Romance is probably not speaking strictly of love, but rather of the Romance movement which was bound to nature. Romantics wrote and focused on nature over man. Poe is saying that when the leaves were green (think spring-metaphorically childhood), he learned everything from nature (that's the reference to the parakeet teaching him his letters). The second stanza moves later into life. I'm more unsure of this part, but it seems to be saying that time flies by and, with his interest in Nature, he lives a more care-free life. Even though older, he still feels Nature should be loved and appreciated. Sorry the last part is so vague. Good luck!