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LOVE'S BURIAL-PLACE: A MADRIGAL by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Poet Analysis

First Line: IF LOVE BE DEAD
Last Line: AND DIED AT LENGTH OF A DECLINE.'
Subject(s): LOVE - LOSS OF;
@3Lady.@1 If Love be dead --
@3Poet.@1 And I aver it!
@3Lady.@1 Tell me, Bard! where Love lies buried?
@3Poet.@1 Love lies buried where 'twas born:
Oh, gentle dame! think it no scorn
If, in my fancy, I presume
To call thy bosom poor Love's Tomb.
And on that tomb to read the line: --
'Here lies a Love that once seem'd mine
But caught a chill, as I divine,
And died at length of a Decline.'



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