Love
Are the dead as calm as those
From Poems (1908)
Love
Are the dead as calm as those
They leave behind them, friends or foes
However a man may love or fight
Calm he falls asleep at night!
Fast the living sleeps and well;
But the spirits— who can tell?
Are they as a rushing flame
For the Sun from whence it came?
Driven on from star to star,
Where the other dead men are?
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MLA
Coleridge, Mary E. “Are the dead as calm as those.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge_m/158/.
Chicago
Coleridge, Mary E. “Are the dead as calm as those.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge_m/158/.
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