by Coleridge · Cluster: Unrequited Frustrated Love · Unattainable Beloved · Petrarchan Sonnet
Abstract
A textual-variants note and alternate versions of the Lessing love-epigram ‘Names’/‘Die Namen’, cataloguing classical pseudonyms and the refrain ‘call me thine’.
Connections
Archetypes: Lover Motifs: Love Themes & Concepts: Romantic Love Forms & Genres: Epigram, Translation Historical References: Classical Antiquity
Testo integrale / Full text
in
the
Keepsake
for
1829, in Cottle’s
Early
Recollections (two versions) 1837, ii. 67, and in Essays on His Own
Times, iii. 990, ‘As it first appeared’ in the Morning Post. First
collected in 1834. For the original (Die Namen) see Appendices of this
edition.
Title] Song from Lessing M. P., Essays, &c.: From the German of Lessing
P. R.: Epigram Keepsake, 1829, Cottle’s Early Recollections.
Iphigenia, Clelia, Chloris,
M. P., Cottle, E. R., P. R.
Neaera, Laura, Daphne, Chloris,
Keepsake.
Laura, Lesbia, or Doris,
MS. 1799, M. P., Cottle, E. R.
Carina, Lalage, or Doris,
Keepsake.
Keepsake.
Call me Clelia, call me Chloris,
Laura, Lesbia or Doris
M. P., Cottle, E. R.
Clelia, Iphigenia, Chloris,
Laura, Lesbia, Delia, Doris,
But don’t forget to call me thine.
P. R.