by Coleridge · Cluster: Transience · Decay · Carpe Diem
Abstract
A short fragment on transient mortals hoping for a brighter destiny of one perpetual Spring; themes of transience, hope, and immortality.
Connections
Topoi: Tempus Fugit Motifs: Spring, Flowers Themes & Concepts: Transience, Immortality Forms & Genres: Fragment
Testo integrale / Full text
FRAGMENT FROM AN UNPUBLISHED POEM.
The early Year’s fast-flying vapours stray
In shadowing trains across the orb of day:
And we, poor Insects of a few short hours,
Deem it a world of Gloom.
Were it not better hope a nobler doom, 5
Proud to believe that with more active powers
On rapid many-coloured wing
We thro’ one bright perpetual Spring
Shall hover round the fruits and flowers,
Screen’d by those clouds and cherish’d by those showers! 10
1796.