Fragment 5: Whom should I choose for my Judge?
Fragment 5: Whom should I choose for my Judge?
Original Text
The poetical works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. James Dykes Campbell (London: Macmillan, 1893). VICT Rare Books No. 151. The complete poetical works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: including poems and versions of poems now published for the first time, ed. Ernest Hartley Coleridge (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1912). PR 4470 F12 VICT Rare Books.
2Who, in the work, forgets me and the world and himself!
3Ye who have eyes to detect, and Gall to Chastise the imperfect,
4Have you the heart, too, that loves, feels and rewards the Compleat?
5What is the meed of thy Song? 'Tis the ceaseless, the thousandfold Echo
6Which from the welcoming Hearts of the Pure repeats and prolongs it,
7Each with a different Tone, compleat or in musical fragments.
Notes
1] From Notebook 24, one of Coleridge's numerous metrical experiments. Back to Line
Publication Notes
1893, 1912
RPO poem Editors
Kathleen Coburn; R. S. Woof
RPO Edition
3RP 2.475.