by Coleridge · Cluster: Mortality · Grave · Memento Mori
Abstract
A self-epitaph giving his sins to Death and the rest to Christ, with a coda on how the heart reveals love it would conceal and absence of love it would show. Themes: mortality, redemption, the concealed heart.
Connections
Topoi: Memento Mori Themes & Concepts: Mortality, Grace and Redemption, Romantic Love Forms & Genres: Epigram Characters: Christ, Death Personified
Testo integrale / Full text
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Quae linquam, aut nihil, aut nihili, aut vix sunt mea. Sordes
Do Morti: reddo caetera, Christe! tibi.
1826.
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In many ways does the full heart reveal
The presence of the love it would conceal;
But in far more th’ estrangéd heart lets know
The absence of the love, which yet it fain would shew.
1826.