by Coleridge · Cluster: Unrequited Frustrated Love · Unattainable Beloved · Petrarchan Sonnet
Abstract
A short devotional love-lyric enshrining the beloved like a saint in a heart-shrine, treating love as religion. Sonnet-like fragment.
Connections
Topoi: Love as Religion Archetypes: Lover Themes & Concepts: Romantic Love, Divine Love Forms & Genres: Lyric
Testo integrale / Full text
This yearning heart (Love! witness what I say)
Enshrines thy form as purely as it may,
Round which, as to some spirit uttering bliss,
My thoughts all stand ministrant night and day
Like saintly Priests, that dare not think amiss.
? 1801.