POTW: What Hurts, Teaches – Reflections on a Coleridge Poem

Quae Nocent Docent [in Christ’s Hospital book] O! mihi praeteritos referat si Jupiter annos! (1789) Oh! might my ill-past hours return again! No more, as then, should Sloth around me throw Her soul-enslaving, leaden chain! No more the precious time would I employ In giddy revels, or in thoughtless joy, A present joy producing future […]

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