Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EARLY DEATH, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE


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First Line: She pass'd away like morning dew
Last Line: But holy death is kinder?
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley
Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology


SHE pass'd away like morning dew
Before the sun was high;
So brief her time, she scarcely knew
The meaning of a sigh.

As round the rose its soft perfume,
Sweet love around her floated;
Admired she grew -- while mortal doom
Crept on, unfear'd, unnoted.

Love was her guardian Angel here,
But Love to Death resign'd her;
Tho' Love was kind, why should we fear
But holy Death is kinder?





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