Death & Dying
On an Infant Which Died Before Baptism
From Poems of Coleridge, selected by Arthur Symons (1905)
Death & Dying
"Be, rather than be call'd, a child of God,"
Death whisper'd!--with assenting nod,
Its head upon its mother's breast,
The Baby bow'd, without demur--
Of the kingdom of the Blest
Possessor, not inheritor.
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MLA
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “On an Infant Which Died Before Baptism.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/63/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “On an Infant Which Died Before Baptism.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/63/.
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