Talk:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Misattributed

Coleridge is widely blamed for the following doggerel: "Swans sing before they die 'twere no bad thing / Should certain people die before they sing!". Was he really responsible? Some sites also attribute it to Pope. It seems bathetic for both. ~ Unsigned

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• Stop, Christian passer-by!—Stop, child of God.
  • "Epitaph for Himself"

• That he who many a year with toil of breath
  Found death in life, may here find life in death.
  • "Epitaph for Himself"

• Letters four do form his name. [Pitt.]
  • "Fire, Famine and Slaughter"

• 'Tis sweet to him who all the week
  Through city-crowds must push his way,
  To stroll alone through fields and woods,
  And hallow thus the Sabbath-day.
  • "Home-Sick"

• Choose thou whatever suits the line;
  Call me Sappho, call me Chloris,
  Call me Lalage or Doris,
  Only, only call me thine.
  • "Names"
    • Ficaia (talk) 14:06, 27 July 2025 (UTC)