by Coleridge · Cluster: Satire of Society · Epigram · Satire
Abstract
A comic epigram companion-piece, joyfully leaving the ‘body-and-soul-stinking town of Cologne’, wine and a church the only redeeming things. Themes: satire, the city, comedy.
Connections
Motifs: City, Wine and Drink Themes & Concepts: Satire of Society Forms & Genres: Epigram, Satire
Testo integrale / Full text
As I am a Rhymer,
And now at least a merry one,
Mr. Mum’s Rudesheimer
And the church of St. Geryon
Are the two things alone 5
That deserve to be known
In the body-and-soul-stinking town of Cologne.
1828.