"I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within."
— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Work Title
Date
October 4, 1802
Metaphor
"I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within."
Metaphor in Context
My genial spirits fail;
And what can these avail
To lift the smothering weight from off my breast?
It were a vain endeavour,
Though I should gaze for ever
On that green light that lingers in the west:
I may not hope from outward forms to win
The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
(ll. 39-46)
And what can these avail
To lift the smothering weight from off my breast?
It were a vain endeavour,
Though I should gaze for ever
On that green light that lingers in the west:
I may not hope from outward forms to win
The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
(ll. 39-46)
Categories
Provenance
Reading at RPO
Citation
Written in April 1802; first published, October 4, 1802, in the Morning Post.
Text from Representative Poetry Online <Link>.
Text from Representative Poetry Online <Link>.
Date of Entry
08/20/2013
