Something Childish, but Very Natural
Something Childish, but Very Natural
Written in Germany
Original Text
S. T. Coleridge, Annual Anthology (London: Biggs; Bristol: T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800) B-10 967 Fisher Rare Book Library (Toronto).
1 If I had but two little wings
2 And were a little feathery bird,
3 To you I'd fly, my dear!
4But thoughts like these are idle things,
5 And I stay here.
6 But in my sleep to you I fly:
7 I'm always with you in my sleep!
8 The world is all one's own.
9But then one wakes, and where am I?
10 All, all alone.
11 Sleep stays not, though a monarch bids:
12 So I love to wake ere break of day:
13 For though my sleep be gone,
14Yet while 'tis dark, one shuts one's lids,
15 And still dreams on.
Publication Start Year
1800
RPO poem Editors
J. D. Robins
RPO Edition
2RP 2.118.
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