Death & Dying
To a Lady: Nay, dearest Anna! why so grave
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Death & Dying
Nay, dearest Anna! why so grave?
I said, you had no soul, 'tis true!
For what you are, you cannot have:
'Tis I, that have one since I first had you!
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Codex Note
Offended by a Sportive Observation That Women Have No Souls. ? 1811
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “To a Lady: Nay, dearest Anna! why so grave.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/257/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “To a Lady: Nay, dearest Anna! why so grave.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/257/.
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