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The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2

Book 2 — SONNET[392:2]

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SONNET[392:2]

[TRANSLATED FROM MARINI]

Lady, to Death we're doom'd, our crime the same! Thou, that in me thou kindled'st such fierce heat; I, that my heart did of a Sun so sweet The rays concentre to so hot a flame. [393]I, fascinated by an Adder's eye— 5 Deaf as an Adder thou to all my pain; Thou obstinate in Scorn, in Passion I— I lov'd too much, too much didst thou disdain. Hear then our doom in Hell as just as stern, Our sentence equal as our crimes conspire— 10 Who living bask'd at Beauty's earthly fire, In living flames eternal these must burn— Hell for us both fit places too supplies— In my heart thou wilt burn, I roast before thine eyes.

? 1805.

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