Love
On a Late Marriage Between an Old Maid and French Petit Maître
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Love
Tho' Miss ----'s match is a subject of mirth,
She considered the matter full well,
And wisely preferred leading one ape on earth
To perhaps a whole dozen in hell.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “On a Late Marriage Between an Old Maid and French Petit Maître.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/289/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “On a Late Marriage Between an Old Maid and French Petit Maître.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/289/.
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