by Coleridge · Cluster: Transience · Decay · Carpe Diem
Abstract
Latin original (after Casimir) of the lyre poem: hang up the lyre, recline by the bank, while clouds gather and joys flee on fleeting foot; on transience and the lyre.
Connections
Topoi: Tempus Fugit Motifs: Music and Song, Storm Themes & Concepts: Transience Forms & Genres: Ode Historical References: Classical Antiquity
Testo integrale / Full text
Sonori buxi Filia sutilis,
Pendebis alta, Barbite, populo,
Dum ridet aer, et supinas
Solicitat levis aura frondes:
Te sibilantis lenior halitus
Perflabit Euri: me iuvet interim
Collum reclinasse, et virenti
Sic temere iacuisse ripa.
Eheu! serenum quae nebulae tegunt
Repente caelum! quis sonus imbrium!
Surgamus — heu semper fugaci
Gaudia praeteritura passu!
‘Advertisement’ to Ad Lyram,
in Watchman, II, March 9, 1796.
Title] Song. [Note. Imitated from Casimir.] MS. E.