by Coleridge · Cluster: Unrequited Frustrated Love · Unattainable Beloved · Petrarchan Sonnet
Abstract
A love-lyric composed in illness and absence longing for reunion with the beloved, with the rose-and-dawn emblem of mistress healing flower; themes of romantic love and longing.
Connections
Archetypes: Lover Motifs: Rose, Dawn Themes & Concepts: Romantic Love Forms & Genres: Lyric
Testo integrale / Full text
(Composed during Illness, and in Absence.)
Dim Hour! that sleep’st on pillowing clouds afar,
O rise and yoke the Turtles to thy car!
Bend o’er the traces, blame each lingering Dove,
And give me to the bosom of my Love!
My gentle Love, caressing and carest, 5
With heaving heart shall cradle me to rest!
Shed the warm tear-drop from her smiling eyes,
Lull with fond woe, and medicine me with sighs!
While finely-flushing float her kisses meek,
Like melted rubies, o’er my pallid cheek. 10
Chill’d by the night, the drooping Rose of May
Mourns the long absence of the lovely Day;
Young Day returning at her promis’d hour
Weeps o’er the sorrows of her favourite Flower;
Weeps the soft dew, the balmy gale she sighs, 15
And darts a trembling lustre from her eyes.
New life and joy th’ expanding flow’ret feels:
His pitying Mistress mourns, and mourning heals!
? 1795.