by Coleridge · Cluster: Unrequited Frustrated Love · Unattainable Beloved · Petrarchan Sonnet
Abstract
A lyric on love and jealousy personified as twin-sisters, treating jealousy as love’s inseparable shadow.
Connections
Archetypes: Lover Motifs: Sleep Themes & Concepts: Romantic Love, Jealousy Forms & Genres: Lyric
Testo integrale / Full text
That Jealousy may rule a mind
Where Love could never be
I know; but ne’er expect to find
Love without Jealousy.
She has a strange cast in her ee, 5
A swart sour-visaged maid —
But yet Love’s own twin-sister she
His house-mate and his shade.
Ask for her and she’ll be denied: —
What then? they only mean 10
Their mistress has lain down to sleep,
And can’t just then be seen.
? 1830.