Love
To a Lady who Requested Me to Write a Poem upon Nothing
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Love
On nothing, Fanny, shall I write?
Shall I not one charm of thee indite?
The Muse is most unruly,
And vows to sing of what's more free,
More soft, more beautiful than thee;--
And that is Nothing, truly!
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “To a Lady who Requested Me to Write a Poem upon Nothing.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/357/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “To a Lady who Requested Me to Write a Poem upon Nothing.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/357/.
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