Social Commentaries
Epigram: Money, I've heard a wise man say
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Social Commentaries
Money, I've heard a wise man say,
Makes herself wings and flies away--
Ah! would she take it in her head
To make a pair for me instead.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Epigram: Money, I've heard a wise man say.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/354/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Epigram: Money, I've heard a wise man say.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/354/.
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