Names (from Lessing)

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Title:     Names (from Lessing)
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

I ask'd my fair one happy day,
What I should call her in my lay;
By what sweet name from Rome or Greece;
Lalage, Neaera, Chloris,
Sappho, Lesbia, or Doris,
Arethusa or Lucrece.

'Ah!' replied my gentle fair,
'Belovéd, what are names but air?
Choose thou whatever suits the line;
Call me Sappho, call me Chloris,
Call me Lalage or Doris,
Only, only call me Thine.'

1799.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Names (from Lessing)

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