Love
Sadness
From Poems (1908)
Love
I think that Sadness is an idiot born;
She has no eyes to see the sun in heaven,
No ears to hear the music of the earth,
No voice to utter forth her own desire.
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MLA
Coleridge, Mary E. “Sadness.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge_m/232/.
Chicago
Coleridge, Mary E. “Sadness.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge_m/232/.
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