Death & Dying

Morienti Superstes

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772–1834

From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)

Death & Dying

Yet art thou happier far than she
Who feels the widow's love for thee!
For while her days are days of weeping,
Thou, in peace, in silence sleeping,
In some still world, unknown, remote,
The mighty parent's care hast found,
Without whose tender guardian thought
No sparrow falleth to the ground.

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? 1794

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Morienti Superstes.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/512/.

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