The Mind
Over My Cottage
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
The Mind
The Pleasures sport beneath the thatch;
But Prudence sits upon the watch;
Nor Dun nor Doctor lifts the latch!
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Codex Note
After Lessing's Sinngedicht. 1799
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Over My Cottage.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/436/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Over My Cottage.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/436/.
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