On Donne's Poem 'To A Flea'

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Title:     On Donne's Poem 'To A Flea'
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

Be proud as Spaniards! Leap for pride ye Fleas!
Henceforth in Nature's mimic World grandees.
In Phoebus' archives registered are ye,
And this your patent of Nobility.
No skip-Jacks now, nor civiller skip-Johns,
Dread Anthropophagi! specks of living bronze,
I hail you one and all, sans Pros or Cons,
Descendants from a noble race of Dons.
What tho' that great ancestral Flea be gone,
Immortal with immortalising Donne,
His earthly spots bleached off a Papist's gloze,
In purgatory fire on Bardolph's nose.

1811

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: On Donne's Poem 'To A Flea'

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