Death & Dying
Epitaph on a Bad Man
From Poems of Coleridge, selected by Arthur Symons (1905)
Death & Dying
Under this stone does Walter Harcourt lie,
Who valued nought that God or man could give;
He lived as if he never thought to die;
He died as if he dared not hope to live!
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MLA
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Epitaph on a Bad Man.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/81/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Epitaph on a Bad Man.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/81/.
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