by Coleridge · Cluster: Appearance vs Reality · Beauty · Eyes and Sight
Abstract
A metrical experiment (scanned) praising a beauty bright as an angel that dazzles and awes; prosodic study in a love-compliment lyric.
Connections
Motifs: Light and Dark Themes & Concepts: Romantic Love, Beauty Forms & Genres: Fragment, Lyric
Testo integrale / Full text
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When thy Beauty appears,
In its graces and airs,
All bright as an Angel new dight from the Sky,
At distance I gaze, and am awed by my fears,
So strangely you dazzle my Eye.
Now first published from an MS.