History & Politics
Napoleon
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
History & Politics
The Sun with gentle beams his rage disguises,
And, like aspiring Tyrants, temporises--
Never to be endured but when he falls or rises.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Napoleon.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/486/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Napoleon.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/486/.
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