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Poems by Hartley Coleridge

With a Memoir of his Life by his Brother. In Two Volumes

Coleridge, Hartley (1796-1849)

VOL. I

II.

VOL. II.

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EPIGRAM.

They say Despair has power to kill
With her bleak frown; but I say No:
If life did hang upon her will,
Then Hope had perish'd long ago:
Yet still the twain keep up their “barful strife,”
For Hope Love's leman is, Despair his wife.