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What Is an Epigram?

1772 –

1834

What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole,
Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

This poem is in the public domain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a leader of the British Romantic movement, was born on October 21, 1772, in Devonshire, England.

Themes

Or a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1816

Part I

It is an ancient mariner
And he stoppeth one of three.
--"By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stoppest thou me?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1798

All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of Love,
And feed his sacred flame.

Oft in my waking dreams do I
Live o’er again that happy hour,
When midway on the mount I lay,
Beside the ruin'd tower.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1826