Come, come thou bleak December wind (fragment)

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Come, come thou bleak December wind,

   And blow the dry leaves from the tree!

   Flash, like a Love-thought, thro' me, Death

   And take a Life that wearies me.

NOTES

Form:

abcb

Composition Date:

June 22, 1806

1.

Dated at Pisa, in Notebook 15\; the lines are a highly charged personal

adaptation of Percy's \