Social Commentaries
Epigram: An excellent adage commands that we should
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Social Commentaries
An excellent adage commands that we should
Relate of the dead that alone which is good;
But of the great Lord who here lies in lead
We know nothing good but that he is dead.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Epigram: An excellent adage commands that we should.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/350/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Epigram: An excellent adage commands that we should.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/350/.
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