by Coleridge · Cluster: Joy · Animals · Comic Verse Song
Abstract
Brief lyric fragment of a warm, still bower where the lovers are together and the heart stays glad through tears. Themes of love, nature and momentary bliss.
Connections
Topoi: Locus Amoenus Motifs: Nature Themes & Concepts: Romantic Love, Joy Forms & Genres: Fragment
Testo integrale / Full text
Within these circling hollies woodbine-clad —
Beneath this small blue roof of vernal sky —
How warm, how still! Tho’ tears should dim mine eye,
Yet will my heart for days continue glad,
For here, my love, thou art, and here am I!
? 1801.