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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NAMES, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I asked my fair one happy day Last Line: Only, only call me thine.' Subject(s): Names | |||
I ASKED my fair one happy day, What I should call her in my lay; By what sweet name from Rome or Greece; Lalage, Neaera, Chloris, Sappho, Lesbia, or Doris, Arethusa or Lucrece. 'Ah!' replied my gentle fair, 'Beloved, what are names but air? Choose thou whatever sults the line; Call me Sappho, call me Chloris, Call me Lalage or Doris, Only, only call me Thine.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MISSISSIPPI by E. ETHELBERT MILLER THE FANTASTIC NAMES OF JAZZ by HAYDEN CARRUTH TV MEN: LAZARUS by ANNE CARSON CLARE OF ASSISI by MADELINE DEFREES TERMINAL LAUGHS by IRVING FELDMAN A CHILD'S EVENING PRAYER by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A DAY DREAM by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY A VIEW, OF SADDLEBACK IN CUMBERLAND by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
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