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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a leader of the British Romantic movement, was born...
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		Poems about Language
		Etymological Dirge by Heather McHugh

		Having Words by Alfred Corn

		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


		Other Epigrams
		Epigram on Rough Woods by Robert Burns

		Underwoods: Epigram by Robert Louis Stevenson

What Is an Epigram?
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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