Poems That Every Child Should Know/If I Had But Two Little Wings

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For other versions of this work, see Something childish, but very natural (Coleridge).

If I Had But Two Little Wings.

"If I Had But Two Little Wings," by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), is recommended by a number of teachers and school-girls.

If I had but two little wings
And were a little feathery bird,
To you I'd fly, my dear!
But thoughts like these are idle things
And I stay here.

But in my sleep to you I fly:
I'm always with you in my sleep!
The world is all one's own.
And then one wakes, and where am I?
All, all alone.

Samuel T. Coleridge.