Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) British poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher
Sylphs
Poems (1851), Prometheus
“Fond archer, Hope! who tak'st thy aim so far,
That still or short, or wide thine arrows are!”
Against Hope.
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