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The Week
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Sara Coleridge


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On Sunday begin
The week without sin;
On Monday resume
Your tasks without gloom;
And pray don’t be vexed
That Tuesday comes next;
And when it is gone
Doth Wednesday come on;
And Thursday can ne’er
To follow forbear;
And Friday, no doubt,
Not being left out;
With Saturday last
The week will be past.


From Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children (London: John W. Parker, 1839)
This poem is in the public domain.


Sara Coleridge (1802 – 1852) was the daughter of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and a neighbor of poet William Wordsworth. Fluent in Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian, and Spanish, Sara first focused on translating works from these languages. After she married and had children, she began writing poetry for children. Sara's work was popular and well respected in her day. She died of breast cancer, leaving behind a partially-written autobiography, Memoirs and Letters of Sara Coleridge, which her daughter completed and published after her mother's death.

 

 


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