Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Here you will find the Poem On An Infant Which Died Before Baptism of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge

On An Infant Which Died Before Baptism

'Be, rather than be call'd, a child of God,'
Death whisper'd!--with assenting nod,
Its head upon its mother's breast,
The Baby bow'd, without demur--
Of the kingdom of the Blest
Possessor, not inheritor.


April 8th, 1799.