Show A poet who was ti hero in nil alio range of literary biography one canies conies acro w acry few live so full of quiet and heroism of thit of bobi rl poet laureado Lau realo of from 1813 till lu death in 1843 lie was an hemblo christian anil alf baci alico was alio law of his life lie iiii wito when lio was so pour eliat lie conail hardly buy alic wedding ring because glicr circumstances were unhappy and lie who luvail glicr wilid to be allowed to send her nil aliu money lie could make during in khing absence of six months 1 aiom that time he lived for her and their children rather than himself but lio did not live for bliem alone coleridge lind sister and vv tiie typical poet of alic old salin sta loo poetical foi alio llio proto ut lifo lie went awny and left liis wife anil children on fiands anil southey for tarm just as cheerfully as for his own alien lie had ant little lio lived upon thai little for lio hid a clear conscience in the matter oj debt in aliu year 1821 lie giai become ho of si hundred and avi anty birc about lie was then furty years alil this sum of wib all lloil lie biad saved through his hardworking hard working lifo iiii solo dependence in case of illness or helpless old au should conic hut no sooner hail lie congratulated himself on its possession than lie heard of alie tunes of iiii friend jolin may to whom he had formerly been indebted for much kindness may had suddenly lost his all instantly mind was made up he wrote to hy same post I 1 am writing to bedford him to transfer to you sic hundred and twenty live in lie pcr canti I 1 w ili it was more ami eliat I 1 had more al my command in my way I 1 have in alic aprin sprin sp rin wl icci I 1 am paid for alio llio birst volume of my liis lory lie goes on to 0 o visit leini to come to n pleasant store ut recollections one anu hardly this letter without tears in ones eyes other man ever in cd alio at forty seven would have transferred to an unfortunate all llie of his lifo and neither or hoped jor return deed as ono about which it was possible to hesitate yet niala no parade of his his he to your feelings go naked I 1 cover mino willi a bear skin I 1 will not say that you harden yoiiro by your treatment of them but 1 im sure that mine sire for their cl tithing lie lived for others up to alie very anil of hit difo III lyst i which had long been assailing h n beloved wife reached its crisis and lie wrote to a alio was as near to leini aa his own household I 1 leavo been parted from my wife by something worse than death forty 5 cars she lias been tho life of my life and I 1 have left her this day in n lunatic asylum thank god that utter a year of treatment in the asylum he was ablo to bring glicr back again to wear out the rest of her ami days in her own home thi i restored tu Sont licy sonic measure of hope and cheerfulness for through lie weary dream which was now sirs South cys life she always knew him and took alca suro in hiis presence the strong arm rn jhc lud leaned for forty two years supported her down stairs each day and bore her up at evening in 1835 she died and liou Ii when she had been dead nearly four beirs married howles a woman of fifty two itou rather ns a refuge arr the cold solitude of old ago than willi liepe of anything like had been buried with her whom lie binl called alio lifo 0 liis life and eliom in eight cars after lier death lie went gladly to rejoin were far gualco poet contemporaries alian lie but among all aliu poets who ha 70 ever lived wo look for a truer 01 a nobler man iio could truly say alv anon ir with them io airl 1 with them tinval on aill V I 1 nut that will not in iho lit companion |