Sonnet IX

Sonnet IX

by Hartley Coleridge

This sonnet by Hartley Coleridge is a meditation on the transience of life and beauty, and the inevitability of death. The speaker reflects on the changing seasons and the fading of flowers, and draws parallels to the way in which human life and beauty are also fleeting. The poem concludes with a somber reminder that even the most beautiful and youthful things must eventually come to an end.

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