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‘Frost at Midnight’

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‘Frost at Midnight’, a blank verse poem by S. T. Coleridge, written in 1798. Addressed to his sleeping child Hartley Coleridge, it meditates on the poet's own boyhood, and magically evokes the countryside, ending on a note of rare and thrilling happiness.

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