by Coleridge · Cluster: Imagination · Fragment · Heroic Couplet
Abstract
A plaintive metrical experiment bidding farewell to the pipe, with the moaning wind and an undaisied grave, and notes proposing metre revision; song, loss and prosody.
Connections
Motifs: Wind, Grave, Music and Song Themes & Concepts: Melancholy Forms & Genres: Fragment, Comic Verse Song
Testo integrale / Full text
Go little Pipe! for ever I must leave thee,
Ah, vainly true!
Never, ah never! must I more receive thee?
Adieu! adieu!
Well, thou art gone! and what remains behind,
Soothing the soul to Hope?
The moaning Wind —
Hide with sere leaves my Grave’s undaisied Slope.
(?) October. 1814.
[It would be better to alter this metre —
10´ 6 6´ 10 | 11´ 4 11´ 4: and still more plaintive if the 1st and
4th were 11´ 11´ as well as the 5th and 7th.]
Now first published from an MS.