Death & Dying
The Death of the Starling
From Poems of Coleridge, selected by Arthur Symons (1905)
Death & Dying
Pity! mourn in plaintive tone
The lovely starling dead and gone!
Pity mourns in plaintive tone
The lovely starling dead and gone.
Weep, ye Loves! and Venus! weep
The lovely starling fall'n asleep!
Venus sees with tearful eyes--
In her lap the starling lies!
While the Loves all in a ring
Softly stroke the stiffen'd wing.
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MLA
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “The Death of the Starling.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/56/.
Chicago
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “The Death of the Starling.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/56/.
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