by Coleridge · Cluster: Imagination · Fragment · Heroic Couplet
Abstract
A trochaic metrical experiment on a diviner spirit and unearthly sound making heroic hearts faint; prosodic study with visionary, supernatural imagery.
Connections
Motifs: Supernatural, Music and Song Themes & Concepts: Heroism, Romantic Love Forms & Genres: Fragment
Testo integrale / Full text
Thus she said, and, all around,
Her diviner spirit, gan to borrow;
Earthly Hearings hear unearthly sound,
Hearts heroic faint, and sink aswound.
Welcome, welcome, spite of pain and sorrow,
Love to-day, and Thought to-morrow.
1801. Now first published from an MS.