The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge including Poems and Versions of Poems now Published for the First Time: Edited with Textual and Bibliographical Notes by Ernest Hartley Coleridge |
 | I. |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
COLOGNE |
| II. |
 | The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge |  |
COLOGNE
In Köhln, a town of monks and bones,And pavements fang'd with murderous stones
And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches;
I counted two and seventy stenches,
All well defined, and several stinks!
Ye Nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks,
The river Rhine, it is well known,
Doth wash your city of Cologne;
But tell me, Nymphs, what power divine
Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?
1828.
| The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge | |