by Coleridge · Cluster: Unrequited Frustrated Love · Unattainable Beloved · Petrarchan Sonnet
Abstract
A short lyric after Goethe’s Mignon (‘Kennst du das Land’), yearning toward a warm southern land of citrons and myrtle to wander there with a beloved friend.
Connections
Topoi: Locus Amoenus Motifs: Nature, Journey Themes & Concepts: Nostalgia Forms & Genres: Lyric, Translation
Testo integrale / Full text
Know’st thou the land where the pale citrons grow,
The golden fruits in darker foliage glow?
Soft blows the wind that breathes from that blue sky!
Still stands the myrtle and the laurel high!
Know’st thou it well, that land, beloved Friend? 5
Thither with thee, O, thither would I wend!
? 1799.