Death & Dying
Life and Joy
From Poems (1908)
Death & Dying
It were too strong a bliss for thee to die;
The tide of joy would so well round my heart,
That through the waves life never could depart,
And dying, I should live eternally.
It were too deep a joy for thee to live;
Life would swoon back into the arms of death.
Still feebly crying with her latest breath,
"Myself alone is all that I can give."
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MLA
Coleridge, Mary E. “Life and Joy.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge_m/224/.
Chicago
Coleridge, Mary E. “Life and Joy.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge_m/224/.
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