Social Commentaries
Epigram: Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Social Commentaries
Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf!
He shews his clothes! Alas! he shews himself.
O that they knew, these overdrest self-lovers,
What hides the body oft the mind discovers.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Epigram: Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/341/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Epigram: Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/341/.
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