Death & Dying
The Night-Mare Death in Life
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Death & Dying
I know 'tis but a dream, yet feel more anguish
Than if 'twere truth. It has been often so:
Must I die under it? Is no one near?
Will no one hear these stifled groans and wake me?
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Codex Note
? 1803
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