Social Commentaries
Epigram: Tom Slothful talks, as slothful Tom beseems
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Social Commentaries
Tom Slothful talks, as slothful Tom beseems,
What he shall shortly gain and what be doing,
Then drops asleep, and so prolongs his dreams
And thus enjoys at once what half the world are wooing.
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Codex Note
Môrosophia OR WISDOM IN FOLLY
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Epigram: Tom Slothful talks, as slothful Tom beseems.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/340/.
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