Trees
The Oak is called the king of trees,
The Aspen quivers in the breeze,
The Poplar grows up straight and tall,
The Peach tree spreads along the wall,
The Sycamore gives pleasant shade,
The Willow droops in watery glade,
The Fir tree useful in timber gives,
The Beech amid the forest lives.
By Sara Coleridge Coleridge: “Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children: With Some Lessons in Latin in Easy Rhyme” (1853), page 12
Sara Coleridge Coleridge was born on 23 November 1802 in Keswick, Cumberland, England, as a daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) and Sara Fricker Coleridge (1770 - 1845). She was married in September 1829 to her cousin, Henry Nelson Coleridge. She became a writer, an editor, a poet, and a translator. Sara Coleridge Coleridge passed on at 49 years of age on 3 May 1852 in London, England.
The Oak is called the king of trees,
The Aspen quivers in the breeze,
The Poplar grows up straight and tall,
The Peach tree spreads along the wall,
The Sycamore gives pleasant shade,
The Willow droops in watery glade,
The Fir tree useful in timber gives,
The Beech amid the forest lives.
By Sara Coleridge Coleridge: “Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children: With Some Lessons in Latin in Easy Rhyme” (1853), page 12
Sara Coleridge Coleridge was born on 23 November 1802 in Keswick, Cumberland, England, as a daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) and Sara Fricker Coleridge (1770 - 1845). She was married in September 1829 to her cousin, Henry Nelson Coleridge. She became a writer, an editor, a poet, and a translator. Sara Coleridge Coleridge passed on at 49 years of age on 3 May 1852 in London, England.
