by Coleridge · Cluster: Imagination · Fragment · Heroic Couplet
Abstract
An iambic metrical experiment promising new heat and light from a praised object; a prosodic study in praise-verse with light imagery.
Connections
Topoi: Immortality Through Verse Motifs: Light and Dark, Fire Forms & Genres: Fragment, Lyric
Testo integrale / Full text
No cold shall thee benumb,
Nor darkness stain thy sight;
To thee new Heat, new Light
Shall from this object come,
Whose Praises if thou now wilt sound aright,
My Pen shall give thee leave hereafter to be dumb.
1801. Now first published from an MS.