by Coleridge · Cluster: Sea · Water

Abstract

A brief descriptive fragment of the watery Dutch landscape — windmills, willows, fog-transfixing spires and wide water; pure topographical imagism.

Connections

Topoi: Book of Nature Motifs: Water, Nature, Fog and Smoke Forms & Genres: Fragment

Testo integrale / Full text

Water and windmills, greenness, Islets green; —
Willows whose Trunks beside the shadows stood
Of their own higher half, and willowy swamp: —
Farmhouses that at anchor seem’d — in the inland sky
The fog-transfixing Spires —
Water, wide water, greenness and green banks,
And water seen —
June 1828. Now first published from an MS.