A Slumber did my Spirit Seal
A Slumber did my Spirit Seal
Original Text
William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, 2nd edn. (London: Longman, 1800). No. 5, 1 (c.1,2), 2(c.1) (Victoria College Library, Toronto).
2 I had no human fears:
3She seemed a thing that could not feel
4 The touch of earthly years.
5No motion has she now, no force;
6 She neither hears nor sees;
7Rolled round in earth's diurnal course,
8 With rocks, and stones, and trees.
Notes
1] Composed in Germany. Coleridge wrote of this poem in a letter of April 1799: "Some months ago Wordsworth transmitted to me a most sublime Epitaph ... whether it had any reality, I cannot say.--Most probably, in some gloomier moment he had fancied the moment in which his Sister might die." Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1800
RPO poem Editors
J. R. MacGillivray
RPO Edition
3RP 2.335.
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