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

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Poems by This Author

Answer to a Child's Question by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Do you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove Christabel [excerpt] by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Beneath the lamp the lady bowed Constancy to an Ideal Object by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Since all that beat about in Nature's range Fragment 3: Come, come thou bleak December wind by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Come, come thou bleak December wind Frost at Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The frost performs its secret ministry Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge In Xanadu did Kubla Khan Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge All thoughts, all passions, all delights Ne Plus Ultra by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sole Positive of Night! The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge It is an ancient mariner This Lime Tree Bower My Prison by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Well, they are gone, and here must I remain Work Without Hope by Samuel Taylor Coleridge All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair

Further Reading

Poems about Language Etymological Dirge by Heather McHugh I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone by Rainer Maria Rilke please advise stop [I was dragging a ladder slowly over stones stop] by Rusty Morrison Poem by James Schuyler Primitive State [excerpt] by Anselm Berrigan The Composition of the Text by Adriano Spatola The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart by Jack Gilbert Tonight No Poetry Will Serve by Adrienne Rich Water Music by Robert Creeley Yes by Denise Duhamel