by Coleridge · Cluster: Greek Mythology · Lust Sexual Desire · Desire
Abstract
Compliment to actress Miss Brunton via Thalia and the Tragic/Comic Muses; light lyric on the artist, beauty and the Muses of drama.
Connections
Themes & Concepts: Artist and Society, Beauty, Joy Forms & Genres: Lyric Historical References: Greek Mythology
Testo integrale / Full text
WITH THE PRECEDING TRANSLATION
That darling of the Tragic Muse,
When Wrangham sung her praise,
Thalia lost her rosy hues,
And sicken’d at her lays:
But transient was th’ unwonted sigh; 5
For soon the Goddess spied
A sister-form of mirthful eye,
And danc’d for joy and cried:
‘Meek Pity’s sweetest child, proud dame,
The fates have given to you! 10
Still bid your Poet boast her name;
I have my Brunton too.’
1794.