Our Poetry Aloud at Word and Song this week is also about friendship, as it’s featured in what’s called a “conversation poem,” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The situation is this. The poet isn’t in good health, so he has to stay behind in a bower of lime trees — not the citrus trees, but what are otherwise called linden trees, while his friends are off …
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