Nature
Fragment: The spruce and limber yellow-hammer
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Nature
The spruce and limber yellow-hammer
In the dawn of spring and sultry summer,
In hedge or tree the hours beguiling
With notes as of one who brass is filing.
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Codex Note
1807
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Fragment: The spruce and limber yellow-hammer.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/461/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Fragment: The spruce and limber yellow-hammer.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/461/.
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