Cologne

Das Gedicht "Cologne" schrieb Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

In Köln, 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?

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On My Joyful Departure from the Same City

As I am rhymer,
And now at least a merry one,
Mr. Mum's Rudesheimer
And the church of St. Geryon
Are the two things alone
That deserve to be known
In the body and soul-stinking town of Cologne.

1828 verfasst von

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834

der sich 1798/99 erstmals in Deutschland aufhielt und mit Wordsworth hier Urlaub machte.