Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Here you will find thePoemOn An Infant Which Died Before Baptismof poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge

On An Infant Which Died Before Baptism

'Be, rather than be call'd, a child of God,' Death whisper'd!--with assenting nod, Its head upon its mother's breast, The Baby bow'd, without demur-- Of the kingdom of the Blest Possessor, not inheritor. April 8th, 1799.