Love
Some in a child would live, some in a book
From Poems (1908)
Love
Some in a child would live, some in a book;
When I am dead let there remain of me
Less than a word— a little passing look,
Some sign the soul had once, ere she forsook
The form of life to live eternally.
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MLA
Coleridge, Mary E. “Some in a child would live, some in a book.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge_m/236/.
Chicago
Coleridge, Mary E. “Some in a child would live, some in a book.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge_m/236/.
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