Youth and age : manuscript of a poem signed : [England], [182-?].

Record ID: 
402405
Accession number: 
MA 1581 (Coleridge) 24
Author: 
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Credit: 
Gift of the Fellows, 1954.
Description: 
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.5 x 18.5 cm
Notes: 

Watermark: none.
Part of the Coleorton Papers; see collection-level record for more information.

Summary: 

Draft of "Youth and age" undated, missing the last stanza from the published version "Dew-drops are the gems of morning ... Whose Being is Act, alone remain behind!" with an added entry at the end "Lines written extr[?] in leaving a day in which were the words "Lilies Brow" with the stanza "Tis not the lilies Brow, I prize; / Nor roseate cheeks; nor sunny Eyes; / Enough of Lilies and of Roses! / A thousandfold more dear to me / The Look, which gentle Love discloses-- / The Look, which Love alone can see!"