Social Commentaries
Names
From Poems of Coleridge, selected by Arthur Symons (1905)
Social Commentaries
I ask'd my fair one happy day,
What I should call her in my lay;
By what sweet name from Rome or Greece;
Lalage, Nesera, Chloris,
Sappho, Lesbia, or Doris,
Arethusa or Lucrece.
"Ah!" replied my gentle fair,
"Beloved, what are names but air?
Choose thou whatever suits the line;
Call me Sappho, call me Chloris,
Call me Lalage or Doris,
Only, only call me Thine."
Cite this poem
MLA
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Names.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/54/.
Chicago
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Names.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/54/.
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