Love
Say This
From Poems (1908)
Love
Say that I lived a life of sun and storm,
Tho' sun prevailed.
Say that I saw an ever blessed form,
And strove and failed.
Say that I spent on love my latest breath,
And spent it well.
Say that I died a happy soldier's death,
And fighting fell.
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MLA
Coleridge, Mary E. “Say This.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge_m/189/.
Chicago
Coleridge, Mary E. “Say This.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge_m/189/.
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