by Coleridge · Cluster: Imagination · Fragment · Heroic Couplet
Abstract
A brief lyric invoking the Muse as the companion and soother of the poet’s hours, sent to win praise and bring back joy.
Connections
Topoi: Poet as Prophet Themes & Concepts: Imagination, Artist and Society, Joy Forms & Genres: Lyric
Testo integrale / Full text
Sweet Muse! companion of my every hour!
Voice of my Joy! Sure soother of the sigh!
Now plume thy pinions, now exert each power,
And fly to him who owns the candid eye.
And if a smile of Praise thy labour hail 5
(Well shall thy labours then my mind employ)
Fly fleetly back, sweet Muse! and with the tale
O’erspread my Features with a flush of Joy!
1790.