by Coleridge · Cluster: Satire of Society · Epigram · Satire
Abstract
A complimentary epigram (after Wernicke) praising a frugal man who relieves the needy, hating poverty but not the poor.
Connections
Motifs: Money and Gold Themes & Concepts: Poverty, Humility, Money and Avarice, Economics Forms & Genres: Epigram
Testo integrale / Full text
You’re careful o’er your wealth ‘tis true:
Yet so that of your plenteous store
The needy takes and blesses you,
For you hate Poverty, but not the Poor.
First published in Morning Post, Oct. 28, 1799. Now reprinted for the
first time. Adapted from Wernicke’s Epigrams (Bk. I, No. 49). An den
sparsamen Celidon.
‘Du liebst zwar Geld und Gut, doch so dass dein Erbarmen
Der Arme fühlt.’