Association Of Ideas

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Title:     Association Of Ideas
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

I.--_By Likeness_

Fond, peevish, wedded pair! why all this rant?
O guard your tempers! hedge your tongues about
This empty head should warn you on that point--
The teeth were quarrelsome, and so fell out.
S. T. C.

II.--_Association by Contrast_

Phidias changed marble into feet and legs.
Disease! vile anti-Phidias! thou, i' fegs!
Hast turned my live limbs into marble pegs.

III.--_Association by Time_

SIMPLICIUS SNIPKIN _loquitur_

I touch this scar upon my skull behind,
And instantly there rises in my mind
Napoleon's mighty hosts from Moscow lost,
Driven forth to perish in the fangs of Frost.
For in that self-same month, and self-same day,
Down Skinner Street I took my hasty way--
Mischief and Frost had set the boys at play;
I stept upon a slide--oh! treacherous tread!--
Fell smash with bottom bruised, and brake my head!
Thus Time's co-presence links the great and small,
Napoleon's overthrow, and Snipkin's fall.

[The end]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Association Of Ideas

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