by Coleridge · Cluster: Imagination · Fragment · Heroic Couplet
Abstract
Short lyric fragments on the grave and the Cherub Hope, and on the wailing sea-mew; brief studies of mortality, hope and seabird imagery.
Connections
Motifs: Grave, Birds, Sea, Flowers Themes & Concepts: Mortality Forms & Genres: Fragment
Testo integrale / Full text
O’er the raised earth the gales of evening sigh;
And, see, a daisy peeps upon its slope!
I wipe the dimming waters from mine eye;
Even on the cold grave lights the Cherub Hope.
? 1787. First published in Poems, 1852 (p. 379, Note 1). First
collected 1893.
Sea-ward, white gleaming thro’ the busy scud
With arching Wings, the sea-mew o’er my head
Posts on, as bent on speed, now passaging
Edges the stiffer Breeze, now, yielding, drifts,
Now floats upon the air, and sends from far
A wildly-wailing Note.
Now first published from an MS. Compare Fragment No. 29 of Fragments
from a Notebook.