by Coleridge · Cluster: Dreams · Moon
Abstract
Dream-vision fragment of a face from which all earthly accident has passed, the pure spirit shining visibly through the body. Themes of soul, idealized beloved and the visionary.
Connections
Motifs: Dreams, Light and Dark Themes & Concepts: Self-Knowledge, Romantic Love, Imagination Forms & Genres: Fragment
Testo integrale / Full text
All look and likeness caught from earth,
All accident of kin and birth,
Had pass’d away. There was no trace
Of aught on that illumined face,
Uprais’d beneath the rifted stone 5
But of one spirit all her own; —
She, she herself, and only she,
Shone through her body visibly.
1805.