“Breathe slumbrous music round me, sweet and slow,
To honied phrases set!
Into the land of dreams I long to go.
Bid me forget!”
Mandragora, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 3
British writer 1861–1907Related quotes

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