'And sweeter far the early blow
Fast following after storms of Woe
Than (Comfort's riper season come)
Are full-blown joys and Pleasure's gaudy bloom.'
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Is Coleridge better than Wordsworth? It was Coleridge's unique way of referring to flowers,
writing 'blow' and 'full-blown' is common usage for 'total, complete' This one short stanza is Coleridge at his best, I think..
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Is Coleridge better than Wordsworth? It was Coleridge's unique way of referring to flowers, writing 'blow' and 'full-blown' is common usage for 'total, complete' This one short stanza is Coleridge at his best, I think..