by Coleridge · Cluster: Faith · Providence · Divine Love
Abstract
Companion piece: the dying one is happier than the grieving widow, resting in a remote still world under the providential parent without whom no sparrow falls; faith and consolation.
Connections
Motifs: Sleep, Birds Themes & Concepts: Grief and Loss, Providence, Faith, Mortality Forms & Genres: Lyric Historical References: Bible
Testo integrale / Full text
Yet art thou happier far than she
Who feels the widow’s love for thee!
For while her days are days of weeping,
Thou, in peace, in silence sleeping,
In some still world, unknown, remote, 5
The mighty parent’s care hast found,
Without whose tender guardian thought
No sparrow falleth to the ground.
? 1794.