Love
Mortal Combat
From Poems (1908)
Love
It is because you were my friend,
I fought you as the devil fights.
Whatever fortune God may send,
For once I set the world to rights.
And that was when I thrust you down,
And stabbed you twice and twice again,
Because you dared take off your crown,
And be a man like other men.
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MLA
Coleridge, Mary E. “Mortal Combat.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge_m/24/.
Chicago
Coleridge, Mary E. “Mortal Combat.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge_m/24/.
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