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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Keyword: samuel taylor coleridge Matches Found: 462 8-DEC, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fathers die twice Last Line: Lighted as samuel taylor coleridge A BECK IN WINTER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the broad, the shallow, rapid stream Last Line: And pomp of antlers -- Subject(s): Winter A CHARACTER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bird, who for his other sins Last Line: With scarce a pocket for his penny! A CHILD'S EVENING PRAYER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere on my bed my limbs I lay Last Line: Awake to thy eternal day! Amen. Subject(s): Love; Prayer; Sleep A DAY DREAM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes make pictures, when they are shut Last Line: Murmur it to yourselves, ye two beloved women! Variant Title(s): Eye Subject(s): Dreams; Language; Nightmares; Words; Vocabulary A FRAGMENT FOUND IN A LECTURE-ROOM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where deep in mud cam rolls his slumbrous stream Last Line: Cetera desunt. A LETTER TO SARA HUTCHINSON, APRIL 4, 1802 -- SUNDAY EVENING, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well! If the bard was weatherwise, who made Last Line: Thus may'st thou ever, evermore rejoice! Subject(s): Grief; Hutchinson, Sara; Love - Complaints; Sorrow; Sadness A LOVER'S COMPLAINT TO HIS MISTRESS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dubious light sad glimmers o'er the sky Last Line: And faithless ocean smile -- but to deceive. A MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a given finite line Last Line: Tis raised upon a. B. The straight, the given line. A PLANTIVE MOMENT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go little pipe! For ever I must leave thee Last Line: Hide with sere leaves my grave's undaisied slope. A RHYMESTER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jem writes his verses with more speed Last Line: And only not so fast as we forget 'em. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A SOLILOQUY OF THE FULL MOON, SHE BEING IN A MAD PASSION, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now as heaven is my lot, they're the pests of the nation Last Line: I am I myself I, the jolly full moon. Subject(s): Moon A STRANGER MINSTREL; TO MRS. ROBINSON BEFORE HER DEATH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As late on skiddaw's mount I lay supine Last Line: I would, I would that she were here!' Subject(s): Mountains; Robinson, Mary (1758-1800); Skiddaw (mountain), England; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A SUNSET, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the mountain's edge all lightly resting Last Line: And deep the cavern of the fountain mutters. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight A THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY A VIEW, OF SADDLEBACK IN CUMBERLAND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On stern blencathra's perilous height Last Line: The things that seek the earth, how full of noise and riot! Subject(s): Mountains; Saddleback (mountain), England; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A TOMBLESS EPITAPH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis true, idoloclastes satyrane Last Line: Thoughtful, with quiet tears upon his cheek. Subject(s): Epitaphs A WISH WRITTEN IN JESUS WOOD, FEB. 10TH, 1792, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Thro' the dusky silence of the groves Last Line: Compose with icy hand! ABSENCE: A FAREWELL ODE ON QUITTING SCHOOL FOR JESUS COLLEGE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where graced with many a classic spoil Last Line: We bless the wanderer of the night. AD VILMUM AXIOLOGUM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This be the meed, that thy song creates a thousand fold echo! Last Line: Love is the spirit of life, and music the life of the spirit. -- Subject(s): Music & Musicians ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG MAN OF FORTUNE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence that fantastic wantonness of woe Last Line: A prey to tyrants, murderers of mankind. Subject(s): Idleness; Melancholy; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Dejection ALCAEUS TO SAPPHO, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet, when crimson colours dart ALICE DU CLOS: OR THE FORKED TONGUE. A BALLAD, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is not yet risen Last Line: Lies bleeding on the glade. Subject(s): Language; Lies; Words; Vocabulary ALTERNATIVE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This way or that, ye powers above me ALVAR'S ADDRESS TO THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With no irreverent voice or uncouth charm ALWAYS AUDIBLE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pass under jack's window at twelve at night AN ANGEL VISITANT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within these circling hollies woodbine-clad Last Line: For here, my love! Thou art! And here am I! AN ETERNAL POEM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your poem must eternal be Last Line: And without head or tail! Variant Title(s): To Mr. Pye;epigram On The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Subject(s): Pye, Henry James (1745-1813) AN INVOCATION, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet muse! Companion of my every hour Last Line: O'erspread my features with a flush of joy! AN INVOCATION; SONG, FR. REMORSE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear, sweet spirit, hear the spell Last Line: Miserere domine! Variant Title(s): A Voice Sings Subject(s): Inquisition AN ODE IN THE MANNER OF ANACREON, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As late in wreaths gay flowers I bound Last Line: Flutt'ring his wings within my breast! AN ODE ON NAPOLEON; FRAGMENT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'erhung with yew, midway the muses mount Last Line: Usurping power his hands in blood imbrues --' Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) AN ODE ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BASTILE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heard'st thou yon universal cry Last Line: First ever of the first and freest of the free! Subject(s): Bastille (paris); French Revolution (1789); Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts AN ODE TO THE RAIN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know it is dark; and though I have lain Last Line: Do go, dear rain! Do go away. Subject(s): Rain ANCIENT MARINER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is an ancient mariner Last Line: And he shone bright, and on the right %went down into the sea ANCIENT MARINER AMONG THE DEAD BODIES OF SAILORS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the shadow of the ship AND NOW THERE CAME BOTH MIST AND SNOW FR. THE ANCIENT MARINER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Birds ANNA AND HARLAND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within these wilds was anna wont to rove Last Line: Like heaven's bright beauteous bow reflected in the stream. Subject(s): Ghosts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Supernatural ANNA AND HENRY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the glade was anna wont's to rove Last Line: Like heaven's bright bow reflected on the stream. Subject(s): Ghosts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Supernatural ANSWER TO A CHILD'S QUESTION, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you ask what the birds say? The sparrow, the dove Last Line: "I love my love, and my love loves me!" Variant Title(s): What The Birds Say;birds;the Language Of Birds Subject(s): Birds; Love; Spring ANTHEM FOR THE CHILDREN OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seraphs! Around th' eternal's seat who throng Last Line: And each glad scene look brighter for the storm! Subject(s): Children; Childhood APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet in his lone yet genial hour Last Line: Phantoms of sublimity. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fond, peevish, wedded pair! Why all this rant AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A heavy wit shall hang at every lord AVARO, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There comes from old avaro's grave BEELZEBUB AND JOB; EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sly beelzebub took all occasions Last Line: Short-sighted devil, not to take his spouse! Variant Title(s): Job's Luck Subject(s): Devil; Job (bible); Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub BRIDGE STREET COMMITTEE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack stripe BRISTOL WITS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of smart pretty fellows in bristol are numbers, some CALLER FOR SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, by ELINOR LENNEN Poem Source First Line: Joe sits and dreams by a gray mud wall CATULLIAN HENDECASYLLABLES, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear, my beloved, an old milesian story! Last Line: Shivering with ecstasy sank upon her bosom. CHARITY IN THOUGHT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To praise men as good, and to take them for such Last Line: To god, thy conscience, and the grave. CHARITY THE DAUGHTER OF HUMILITY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gently I took that which ungently came Last Line: Give him the rotten timber for his pains! Variant Title(s): Forbearance Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology CHOLERA CURED BEFORE HAND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pains ventral, subventral Last Line: And whitewash at once bowels, rooms, hands, and manners! Subject(s): Cholera CHRISTABEL: PART 1, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the middle of night by the castle clock Last Line: For the blue sky bends over all! CHRISTABEL: PART 2, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each matin bell, the baron saith Last Line: So talks as it 's most used to do. COLERIDGE'S SKY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lady! In this wan and heartless mood Subject(s): Country Life COLOGNE; EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In koln, a town of monks and bones Last Line: Shall henceforth wash the river rhine? Variant Title(s): Epigram;expectoration The Second Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Hate; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances CONCEALMENT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time, as he courses onward Last Line: To scare or to reward. CONSTANCY TO AN IDEAL OBJECT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since all, that beat about in nature's range Last Line: Nor knows he makes the shadow, he pursues! Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy DAINTY TERMS FOR FRATRICIDE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We, this whole people, have been clamorous Last Line: As though he had no wife to pine for him, %no god to judge him! DARK SIDE OF NATURE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yon row of bleak and visionary pines DE MORTUIS NIL NISI BONAM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last monday all the papers said DEJECTION: AN ODE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well! If the bard was weather-wise, who made Last Line: Thus mayest thou ever, evermore rejoice. Variant Title(s): The New Moon;letter To Sara Hutchinson: 4 April 1802, Sunday Evening Subject(s): Grief; Hutchinson, Sara; Love - Complaints; Melancholy; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection DESIRE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where true love burns desire is love's pure flame Last Line: And but translates the language of the heart. Subject(s): Desire; Love DEVONSHIRE ROADS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The indignant bard compos'd this furious ode Last Line: Alight upon thee, damned bog! DIALOGUE BETWEEN AN AUTHOR AND HIS FRIEND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come; your opinion of my manuscript DISTICH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack finding gold left rope on the ground DOMESTIC PEACE; SONG, FR. THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, on what holy ground Last Line: Memory, bosom-spring of joy. DRINKING VERSUS THINKING; OR, A SONG AGAINST THE NEW PHILOSOPHY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My merry men all, that drink with glee Last Line: Dead drunk beneath the table! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine DUE TO THE STAGGERERS, THAT MADE DRUNK BY POWER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography DURA NAVIS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To tempt the dangerous deep, too venturous youth Last Line: And gild with brightest rays the evening of thy life. DUTY SURVIVING SELF-LOVE; THE ONLY SURE FRIEND OF DECLINING LIFE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unchanged within to see all changed without Last Line: Because to thee they are not what they were. Subject(s): Change; Tolerance EASTER HOLIDAYS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Festal easter, that dost bring Last Line: Like easter all the year. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection ELEGY IMITATED FROM ONE OF AKENSIDE'S ... INSCRIPTIONS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near the lone pile with ivy overspread Last Line: That riches cannot pay for love or truth. Subject(s): Akenside, Mark (1721-1770); Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Doctors ELEGY ON A LADY WHO DIED IN EARLY YOUTH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the rais'd earth the gales of evening sigh EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, I admit your general rule Last Line: But you yourself may serve to show it, %that every fool is not a poet Subject(s): Poetry And Poets EPIGRAM ON KEPLER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No mortal spirit yet had clomb so high EPILOGUE TO THE RASH CONJUROR, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ask an urge - (here ends the story!) EPITAPH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here sleeps at length poor col., and without screaming Last Line: All alone and unknown, at edinbro' in an inn. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH OF A MERCENARY MISER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poor benighted pedlar knock'd EPITAPH ON A BAD MAN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of him that in this gorgeous tomb doth lie EPITAPH ON AN INFANT (1), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade Last Line: And bade it blossom there. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON AN INFANT (2), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its balmy lips the infant blest Last Line: Death sang to sleep with lullaby. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON HIMSELF, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stop, christian passer-by! Stop, child of god Last Line: He ask'd, and hoped, through christ, do thou the same! Variant Title(s): Coleridge's Epitaph For Himself, Written 9 November 1833 Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets EPITAPHIUM TESTAMENTARIUM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quae linquam, aut nihil, aut nihil, aut vix sunt mea EUCLID IN RHYME, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear brother FALSE KNIGHT UPON THE ROAD, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O whare are ye gaun? Last Line: Quo' the wee boy, and still he stude FANCY IN NUBIBUS; OR, THE POET IN THE CLOUDS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, it is pleasant, with a heart at ease Last Line: Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. Variant Title(s): The Poet In The Clouds Subject(s): Clouds; Nature FAREWELL TO LOVE; SONNET, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, sweet love! Yet blame you not my truth Last Line: With thoughts that please me less, and less betray me. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FEARS IN SOLITUDE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A green and silent spot, amid the hills Last Line: Love, and the thoughts that yearn for human kind. Variant Title(s): The Dell Subject(s): England; Fear; Poetry & Poets; War; English FIRE, FAMINE AND SLAUGHTER. A WAR ECLOGUE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sisters! Sisters! Who sent you here? Last Line: Cling to him everlastingly. Subject(s): War FIRST ADVENT OF LOVE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fair is love's first hope to gentle mind Last Line: Meets it with brow uplift, and stays his reaping. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings FLORENCE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brightness of the world, o thou once free Subject(s): Florence, Italy FOR A HOUSE-DOG'S COLLAR, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When thieves come, I bark: when gallants, I am still FOSTER MOTHER'S TALE (2), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But that entrance, mother FOUR METRICAL EXPERIMENTS: 1. IAMBICS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No cold shall thee benumb Last Line: My pen shall give thee leave hereafter to be dumb. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FOUR METRICAL EXPERIMENTS: 2. TROCHAICS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus she said, and all around Last Line: Love to-day, and thought to-morrow. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FOUR METRICAL EXPERIMENTS: 4. PINDARIC, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once again, sweet willow, wave thee! Last Line: Why stays my love? Subject(s): Pindar (522-440 B.c.); Willow Trees FRAGMENT (1), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silence of a city, how awful at midnight! Last Line: Of her huge temples. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life FRAGMENT (2), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whom should I choose for my judge? The earnest, impersonal reader Last Line: Each with a different tone, compleat or in musical fragments. Subject(s): Books; Reading FRAGMENT (3), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let eagle bid the tortoise sunward soar Last Line: As vainly strength speaks to a broken mind. FRAGMENT (4), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when the new or full moon urges Last Line: Of the pacific main. Subject(s): Moon FRAGMENT OF METRICAL EPISTLE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such verse as bowles, heart-honoured poet sang Last Line: With my own laughter stifled my own wit. Subject(s): Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850) FRANCE: AN ODE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye clouds! That far above me float and pause Last Line: O liberty! My spirit felt thee there. Subject(s): France - Invasion Of Switzerland (1798); Freedom; French Revolution (1789); Liberty FROM AN OLD GERMAN POET, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That france has put us oft to rout FROM THE MILLER'S MOSSY WHEEL, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography FROST AT MIDNIGHT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The frost performs its secret ministry Last Line: Quietly shining to the quiet moon. Subject(s): Babies; Fantasy; Parents; Infants; Parenthood GENEVIEVE (1), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maid of my love, sweet genevieve Last Line: And therefore love I you, sweet genevieve! GILES'S HOPE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What! Rise again with all one's bones? Last Line: To go without my rib. Subject(s): Bones GLYCINE'S SONG, FR. ZAPOLYA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sunny shaft did I behold GOD'S OMNIPRESENCE; A HYMN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My maker! Of thy power the trace Last Line: Where but thy shadow falls, grief cannot be! Subject(s): God GROVE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a grove GUTCH MEMORANDUM BOOK, SELS., by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography HAPPINESS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On wide or narrow scale shall man Last Line: "while faith proclaims ""thou shalt not die!"" '" HEXAMETERS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: William, my teacher, my friend! Dear william and dear dorothea Last Line: You have all in each other; but I am lonely, and want you! HINT TO PREMIERS AND FIRST CONSULS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three truths should thee often think and pause HOMELESS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O! Christmas day, oh! Happy day Last Line: The desolate in heart. Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The HOMESICK, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sweet to him, who all the week Last Line: Before the door of his own home? Subject(s): Homesickness HONOUR, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fervid sun had more than halv'd the day Last Line: Twas brookes's all till two -- 'twas hackett's all the rest! HOPE AND TIME, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the great city rear'd, my fancy rude Last Line: And knows not whether he is first or last. Subject(s): Fables; Hope; Poetry & Poets; Time; Youth; Allegories; Optimism HOUR-GLASS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O think, fair maid! These sands that pass Subject(s): Hourglasses HUMAN LIFE: ON THE DENIAL OF IMMORTALITY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If dead, we cease to be; if total gloom Last Line: Thy being's being is contradiction. Subject(s): Life; Mortality HUMILITY THE MOTHER OF CHARITY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frail creatures are we all! To be the best Last Line: To god, thy conscience, and the grave Subject(s): Humility HUNTING SONG, FR. ZAPOLYA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up, up! Ye dames and lasses gay! Last Line: To hunt the wolf in the woods to-day. Variant Title(s): Peasants' Hunting Song;choral Song Of Illrian Peasants Subject(s): Hunting; Wolves; Hunters HYMN TO MONT BLANC [IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI], by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star Last Line: Earth with her thousand voices, praises god. Variant Title(s): Before Sunrise, In The Vale Of Chamouni;chamouny;mont Blanc Before Sunrise;hymn Before Sunrise, In The Vale Of Chamouni Subject(s): Alps; Blanc, Mont; Chamonix, France; God; Mountains; Religion; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Theology HYMN TO THE EARTH. HEXAMETERS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth! Thou mother of numberless children, the nurse and the mother Last Line: Wandered bleating in valleys, and warbled on blossoming branches. Subject(s): Earth; World HYMN TO THE MORNING, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, my soul! Not only passive praise I COULD HARDLY WAIT FOR THE SANDMAN, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are several differences between me and samuel taylor coleridge Last Line: How I dreamt I went down the rabbit hole or through the looking glass, whichever you prefer Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Dreams; Poetry And Poets IMITATED FROM OSSIAN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stream with languid murmur creeps Last Line: In slumber's nightly hour. IMITATED FROM THE WELSH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, while my passion I impart Last Line: It wishes to discover. IMITATIONS AD LYRAM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The solemn-breathing air is ended Last Line: Headlong, ever on the wing. IN DARKNES I REMAIN'D - THE NEIGHBOURS CLOCK, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography INSCRIPTION FOR A FOUNTAIN ON A HEATH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This sycamore, oft musical with bees Last Line: Or passing gale or hum of murmuring bees! Subject(s): Fountains; Rivers INSCRIPTION FOR A TIME-PIECE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now! It is gone. Our brief hours travel post INSCRIPTIONS FOR A SEAT BY THE ROAD SIDE HALF-WAY UP A STEEP HILL, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who in youthful vigour rich, and light Last Line: Then wake in heaven, and find the dream all true. INSIDE THE COACH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis hard on bagshot heath to try Last Line: To dreary bagshot heath again! INTRODUCTION OF THE TALE OF THE DARK LADIE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O leave the lily on its stem INVISIBLE POWERS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For what is freedom, but the unfettered use Last Line: Transfer their rude faith perfected and pure IT SOUNDS LIKE STORIES FROM THE LAND OF SPIRITS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography JULIA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Julia was blest with beauty, wit, and grace Last Line: At once her lover and her lap-dog lost. Subject(s): Love - Complaints KNOW THYSELF, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know thyself - and is this the prime Last Line: Ignore thyself, and strive to know thy god! Variant Title(s): True Self-knowledge Subject(s): Self; Worship KUBLA KHAN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In xanadu did kubla khan / a stately pleasure dome decree Last Line: And drunk the milk of paradise. Variant Title(s): Romance;the Sacred River Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Dreams; Heaven; Kubla Khan (1214-1294); Mysticism; Nightmares; Paradise L'ENVOY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vain we supplicate the powers above Last Line: In the chilled heart by gradual self-decay. LAPLAND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As ere from lieule-oaive's vapory head Last Line: Dance sportively. Subject(s): Lapland; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians LEWTI, OR THE CIRCASSIAN LOVE CHANT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At midnight by the stream I roved Last Line: To-morrow lewti may be kind. LIFE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As late I journey'd o'er the extensive plain Last Line: And thought suspended lie in rapture's blissful trance. Subject(s): Life LIGHT CARGOES WAFT OF MODULATED SOUND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography LIGHT TRACERIES, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Observed the great half moon setting behind the mountain ridge, and watched the Last Line: Where is it? Unseen-but a little fleecy cloud hangs above the mountain ridge, and %is rich in amber LIMBO, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a strange place, this limbo! - not a place Last Line: A fear -- a future state; -- 'tis positive negation! Subject(s): Hades LIMBO [DIFF. VERSION], by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sole true something - this! In limbo's den Subject(s): Hades LINES ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND, IN ANSWER TO A MELANCHOLY LETTER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away, those cloudy looks, that labouring sigh Last Line: Barter for food the jewels of his crown. LINES COMPOSED IN A CONCERT-ROOM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nor cold, nor stern, my soul! Yet I detest Last Line: Murmur and music thin of sudden breeze. Subject(s): Music & Musicians LINES COMPOSED WHILE CLIMBING THE LEFT ASCENT OF BROCKLEY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With many a pause and oft reverted eye Last Line: Enchanting spot! O were my sara here! Subject(s): Mountain Climbing LINES FROM A MANUSCRIPT - 1807-8, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon - how definite its orb Last Line: In which it towers, infinite in height/ -- LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - 1806, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright clouds of reverence sufferably bright Last Line: Itself an early sun, of pure intensest white LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - 1815-16, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let klumps of earth however glorified Last Line: Can therefore never be again -- LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - 1815-16, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O! Superstition is the giant shadow Last Line: Casts on the thin mist of the uncertain future. LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - 1822, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where'er I find the good, the true, the fair Last Line: In man, and nature is philosophy. LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - APRIL 1805, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O th' oppressive, irksome weight Last Line: Every notice [...] LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - APRIL/JUNE 1810, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The body / eternal shadow of the finite soul Last Line: Its own yet not itself Subject(s): Soul LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - FEBRUARY 1807 (1), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And in life's noisiest hour Last Line: How oft I bless the lot, that made me love you. LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - FEBRUARY 1807 (2), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As some vast tropic tree, itself a wood Last Line: Broods o'er the rude idolatry beneath. -- Variant Title(s): The Tropic Tree Subject(s): Trees LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - FEBRUARY/MARCH 1804, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sole maid, associate sole, to me beyond Last Line: Of outward strength/ LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - JANUARY 1808, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The singing kettle & the purring cat Last Line: And tender smile answ'ring its smile of sleep. LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - JULY 1807, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life wakeful over all knew no gradation Last Line: And with its voice of voices cries out, o! LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - JUNE 1806, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, come, thou bleak december wind Last Line: And take a life, that wearies me. LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - MARCH 1806, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know 'tis but a dream, yet feel more anguish Last Line: Will no one hear these stifled groans, & wake me? LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - MARCH 1810, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When hope but made tranquillity be felt Last Line: Fann'd the calm air upon the brow of toil -- Subject(s): Hope; Optimism LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - MAY 1810, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have experience'd / the worst, the world can wreak on me; the worst Last Line: That ties me to myself -- and break I shall! -- LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - MAY 1814, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seaward, white-gleaming thro' the busy scud Last Line: A wildly-wailing note. Variant Title(s): The Sea Mew LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - MAY/JULY 1811, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A low dead thunder muttered thro' the night Last Line: & leave me dreaming. -- Subject(s): Sleep LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - MAY/JUNE 1805, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O beauty, in a beauteous body dight! Last Line: Fair cloud which less we see, than by thee see the light! Subject(s): Beauty LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - MAY/JUNE 1811, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mercy, o miserable man Last Line: My joys, my hopes, my friendships, & my love! LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1806, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the shy hind, the soft-eyed gentle brute Last Line: She, fearful beast! But that no sound of fear. LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1806, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His own fair countenance, his kingly forehead Last Line: And saturate with the intellectual rays, it soften'd. LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - SEPTEMBER 1803, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such love as mourning husbands have Last Line: -- cold to the touch & blooming to the eye -- Subject(s): Love LINES IN A GERMAN STUDENT'S ALBUM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We both attended the same college LINES IN THE MANNER OF SPENSER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O peace, that on a lilied bank dost love Last Line: O! How shall I behold my love at even-tide!' LINES INSCRIBED ON THE FLY-LEAF OF BENEDETTO MENZINI'S 'POESIE', by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand alone, nor tho' my heart should break Last Line: Her love was to my heart, like the heart-blood. LINES ON A FRIEND WHO DIED OF A FRENZY FEVER ... CALUMINOUS REPORTS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Edmund! Thy grave with aching eye I scan Last Line: And fain would sleep, though pillowed on a clod! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LINES ON AN AUTUMNAL EVENING, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou wild fancy, check thy wing! No more Last Line: Till chill and damp the moonless night descend. LINES ON OBSERVING A BLOSSOM [ON THE FIRST OF FEBRUARY 1796], by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet flower! That peeping from thy russet stem Last Line: Played deftly on a soft-toned instrument. Variant Title(s): Anemone: Forsaken Subject(s): Flowers LINES SUGGESTED BY THE LAST WORDS OF BERENGARIUS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more 'twixt conscience staggering and the pope Last Line: The mists and painted vapours of our morn. LINES TO A BEAUTIFUL SPRING IN A VILLAGE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more, sweet stream! With slow foot wandering near Last Line: Or o'er the rough rock bursts and foams along! LINES TO A COMIC AUTHOR, ON AN ABUSIVE REVIEW, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though the chilly wide-mouth'd quacking chorus Last Line: I hate the quacking tribe, and they hate me!' Subject(s): Critics & Criticism LINES TO JOSEPH COTTLE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My honor'd friend! Whose verse concise yet clear LINES TO WILLIAM LINLEY WHILE HE SANG A SONG TO PURCELL'S MUSIC, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While my young cheek retains its healthful hues Last Line: Mix with the blest, nor know that I had died! Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs LINES WRITTEN AT SHURTON BARS, NEAR BRIDGEWATER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nor travels my meandering eye Last Line: Shoots rapid through the frame! LINES WRITTEN AT THE KING'S ARMS, FORMERLY THE HOUSE OF 'MAN OF ROSS', by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Richer than miser o'er his countless hoards Last Line: And dream of goodness, thou hast never felt! LINES WRITTEN IN COMMONPLACE BOOK OF MISS BARBOUR, DAUGHTER ..., by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child of my muse! In barbour's gentle hand Last Line: And say, I greet thee with a brother's love! Subject(s): Barbour, James (1775-1842) LINES WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM AT ELBINGERODE, IN HARTZ FOREST, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood on brocken's sovran height, and saw Last Line: Himself our father, and the world our home. Subject(s): Hartz Forest, Germany; Nostalgia LONG DEEP LANE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography LOVE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All thoughts, all passions, all delights Last Line: My bright and beauteous bride. Variant Title(s): Genevieve (2) Subject(s): Courtship; Love LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP OPPOSITE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her attachment may differ from yours in degree Last Line: You must lower down your state to hers. Subject(s): Friendship; Love LOVE'S APPARITION AND EVANISHMENT; AN ALLEGORICAL ROMANCE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a lone arab, old and blind Last Line: To make hope die anew. Subject(s): Love LOVE'S BURIAL-PLACE: A MADRIGAL, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If love be dead Last Line: And died at length of a decline.' Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE, ALWAYS A TALKATIVE COMPANION, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In many ways does the full heart reveal Last Line: The absence of the love, which yet it fain would shew. Variant Title(s): An Unwilling Witness Subject(s): Love LOVE, HOPE, AND PATIENCE IN EDUCATION, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er wayward childhood would'st thou hold firm rule Last Line: And both supporting does the work of both. Subject(s): Education LOVELY IN DECAY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yon hanging woods, that touched by autumn seem MAHOMET, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Utter the song. O my soul! The flight and return of mohammed Last Line: Rushes dividuous all -- all rushing impetuous onward. Subject(s): Muhammad, The Prophet (570-632); Mahomet; Mohammed MELANCHOLY: A FRAGMENT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stretch'd on a mouldered abbey's broadest wall Last Line: Strange was the dream -- METRICAL FEET, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trochee trips from long to short Last Line: Bred racer. Variant Title(s): Lessons For A Boy Subject(s): Ingenuity; Mnemonics; Poetry & Poets MOLES, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They shrink in, as moles Last Line: The natural alien of their negative eye. Subject(s): Animals; Moles MONODY ON A TEA-KETTLE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O muse who sangest late another's pain Last Line: On empty trivets she bids fancied kettles boil! MONODY ON THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON (3), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When faint and sad o'er sorrow's desert wild Last Line: Muse on the sore ills I had left behind Subject(s): Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770) MONODY ON THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON (FIRST VERSION), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold penury repress'd his noble rage Last Line: And soar beyond the storms with upright eye elate! Subject(s): Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770) MONODY ON THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON (SECOND VERSION), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O what a wonder seems the fear of death Last Line: Muse on the sore ills I had left behind. Subject(s): Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770); Poetry & Poets MORIENS SUPERSTES, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet art thou happier far than she MORIENS SUPERSTITI, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hour-bell sounds, and I must go MOTTO, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We've fought for peace, and conquer'd it at last MUSIC, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence, soul-dissolving harmony Last Line: Clappest hoarse thy raven wings! Variant Title(s): Swamp MY BAPTISMAL BIRTH-DAY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God's child in christ adopted, - christ my all Last Line: Yes! But not his -- 'tis death itself there dies. Subject(s): Birthdays; Religion; Theology MY GENTLE-HEARTED CHARLES! WHEN THE LAST ROOK , FR. TIS LIME-TREE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Birds MY GODMOTHER'S BEARD, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So great the charms of mrs. Monday NAMES, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I asked my fair one happy day Last Line: Only, only call me thine.' Subject(s): Names NE PLUS ULTRA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sole positive of night Last Line: That watch the throne of heaven! NECESITY THE MOTHER OF FASHION, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said william to edmund I can't guess the reason NIL PEJUS EST CAELIBE VITA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What pleasures shall he ever find Last Line: To show the man so blest once breath'd the vital air. Subject(s): Celibacy; Pleasure NONSENSE SAPPHICS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's jem's first copy of nonsense verses NOT AT HOME, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That jealousy may rule a mind Last Line: And can't just then be seen. Subject(s): Jealousy O MY MOTHER ISLE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not yet enslaved, not wholly vile O SARA! NEVER RASHLY LET ME GO, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We die, and dying own a more than mortal love OCCASIONED BY THE FORMER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold of all our viperous race OCCASIONED BY THE LAST, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A joke (cries jack) without a sting ODE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye gales, that of the lark's repose Last Line: With breezt influence. ODE ON ASTRONOMY; WRITTEN FOR THE PRIZE AT CAMBRIDGE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail venerable night! Last Line: A god the gods among. Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Immortality; Mythology - Classical; Night; Sky; Stars; Bedtime ODE TO GEORGIANA, DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE ON 'PASSAGE OVER MT. GOTHARD', by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Splendour's folly fostered child! Last Line: Thence learn'd you that heroic measure. Subject(s): Cavendish, Georgiana (1757-1806); Poetry & Poets; Tell, William ODE TO THE DEPARTING YEAR, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit who sweepest the wild harp of time Last Line: God's image, sister of the seraphim. Subject(s): Catherine The Great, Empress Of Russia; Holidays; New Year; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians ODE TO TRANQUILLITY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tranquillity! Thou better name Last Line: Too foolish for a tear, too wicked for a smile! Subject(s): Peace OF A BAD SINGER; EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing Last Line: Did certain persons die before they sing. Variant Title(s): The Desired Swan-song;bad Poets;on A Volunteer Singer;on A Bad Singer Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs OLD AGE, 'THE SHAPE AND MESSENGER OF DEATH', by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography ON A CATARACT; FROM A CAVERN NEAR THE SUMMIT OF A MOUNTAIN PRECIPICE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unperishing youth Last Line: Life invulnerable. ON A CLOCK IN A MARKET-PLACE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What now thou dost or art about to do Last Line: The moment, that secures thee heaven or hell. Subject(s): Time ON A DISCOVERY MADE TOO LATE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou bleedest, my poor heart! And thy distress Last Line: That wan and sickly droops upon her breast! ON A LADY WEEPING, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lovely gems of radiance meek Last Line: And flutters in the fost'ring dew. ON A LATE CONUBIAL RUPTURE IN HIGH LIFE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sigh, fair injur'd stranger! For thy fate Last Line: Like two bright dew-drops meeting in a flower. ON A LATE MARRIAGE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou miss - 's match is a subject of mirth ON A READER OF HIS OWN VERSES; EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hoarse maevius reads his hobbling verse Last Line: An ass without an ear! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ON AN AMOROUS DOCTOR, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From rufa's eye sly cupid shot his dart ON AN INFANT WHICH DIED BEFORE BAPTISM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be, rather than be called, a child of god' Last Line: Possessor, not inheritor. Subject(s): Death - Children; Worship; Death - Babies ON AN INSIGNIFICANT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No doleful faces here, no sighing Last Line: Whom death created into dust. ON DEPUTY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By many a booby's vengeance bit ON DONNE'S FIRST POEM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be proud, as spaniards! And leap for pride, ye fleas Last Line: The natural alien of their negative eye. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets ON DONNE'S POETRY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With donne, whose muse on dromedary trots Last Line: Wit's forge and fire-blast, meaning's press and screw. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets ON IMITATION, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All are not born to soar - and ah! How few Last Line: Yet all like fox can game -- like pitt can drink. ON LUTHER DE DIABOLIS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The angel's like a flea ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE FROM THE CITY OF COLOGNE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I am a rhymer Last Line: In the body-and-soul-stinking town of cologne. Variant Title(s): An Expectoration Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Hate; Travel; Journeys; Trips ON RE-VISITING THE SEA-SHORE, AFTER LONG ABSENCE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God be with thee, gladsome ocean Last Line: I cannot die, if life be love. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore ON RECEIVING AN ACCOUNT THAT HIS ONLY SISTER'S DEATH WAS INEVITABLE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tear which mourn'd a brother's fate scarce dry Last Line: Better to die, than live and not be lov'd! Subject(s): Death; Sisters; Dead, The ON SEEING A YOUTH AFFECTIONATELY WELCOMED BY A SISTER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I too a sister had! Too cruel death Last Line: For life was misery, and the grave is peace! ON SIR ROBICUND NASO, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speak out, sir! You're safe, for so ruddy your nose ON TAKING LEAVE OF - , 1817 [SHORTER VERSION OF 'TO TWO SISTERS'], by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To know, to esteem, to love - and then to part Last Line: And shine in the eye of all the world beside! Subject(s): Farewell; Sisters; Parting ON THE BROAD MOUNTAIN TOP, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography ON THE CHRISTENING OF A FRIEND'S CHILD, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This day among the faithful placed Last Line: Another and the same! Subject(s): Baptism; Christenings ON THE CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our english poets, bad and good, agree ON THE PROSPECT OF ESTABLISHING A PANTISOCRACY IN AMERICA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst pale anxiety, corrosive care Last Line: Content and bliss on transatlantic shore. ON THE WRETCHED LOT OF THE SLAVES IN THE ISLES OF WESTERN INDIA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O death, leaving the gates of darkness, come Last Line: The sufferers thy name shall dart to heaven Subject(s): Slavery; West Indies PAIN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once could the morn's first beams, the healthful breeze Last Line: Ere the wild pulse throbb'd anguish thro' the night! PANTISOCRACY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more my visionary soul shall dwell Last Line: New rays of pleasance trembling to the heart. PARAPHRASE OF PSALM 46. HEXAMETERS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God is our strength and our refuge: therefore will we not tremble Last Line: Halleluja! Th' eternal is with us, the god of our fathers! PARLIAMENTARY OSCILLATORS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almost awake? Why, what is this, and whence Last Line: And once more seeks the bottom's blackest mud! PART THE SEVENTH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since then, at an uncertain hour Subject(s): Birds PEACE ON EARTH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shepherds went their hasty way Last Line: Peace, peace on earth! The prince of peace is born.' Variant Title(s): A Christmas Carol;the Shepherds Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Peace; Nativity, The PENANCE OF THE ANCIENT MARINER, AND HIS REVERENT TEACHING, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched PERMANENCY OF MYTHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATIONS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The intelligible forms of ancient poets PERSPIRATION: A TRAVELING ECLOGUE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dust flies smothering, as on clatt'ring wheels Last Line: The fleecy files faint-ruminating lie. PHANTOM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All look and likeness caught from earth Last Line: Shone through her body visibly. Subject(s): Ghosts; Love; Supernatural PHANTOM OR FACT; A DIALOGUE IN VERSE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lovely form there sate beside my bed Last Line: And 'tis a record from the dream of life. POET'S PRAYER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grant me a patron, gracious heaven! Whene'er PONDERE NON NUMERO, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friends should be weigh'd, not told; who boasts to have won PRESENT STATE OF SOCIETY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Far removed from all that glads the sense Last Line: And mused expectant on these promised years PROFUSE KINDNESS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a spring-tide of love to dear friends in a shoal! Last Line: Half of it to one were worth double the whole! Subject(s): Friendship; Kindness PROGRESS OF VICE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the gulph of vice and woe Last Line: Ah! Close the scene -- ah! Close -- for dreadful is the sight. Subject(s): Evil PSYCHE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly the ancient grecians made Last Line: And to deform and kill the things whereon we feed. Variant Title(s): The Butterfly Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs QUAE NOCENT DOCENT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh? Might my ill-passed hours return again Last Line: But sage experience only comes with years. Subject(s): Experience REASON FOR LOVE'S BLINDENESS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard of reasons manifold Last Line: He seeth with the heart. Subject(s): Love RECANTATION, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An ox, long fed with musty hay Last Line: And sheridan's recanted!' RECOLLECTIONS OF LOVE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How warm this woodland wild recess Last Line: Dear under-song in clamor's hour. Subject(s): Love REFLECTIONS ON HAVING LEFT A PLACE OF RETIREMENT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low was our pretty cot: our tallest rose Last Line: Speed it, o father! Let thy kingdom come! RELIGIOUS MUSINGS; A DESULTORY POEM, WRITTEN ON CHRISTMAS EVE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the time, when most divine to hear Last Line: Flows to the ray and warbles as it flows. Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology REVIEWERS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No private grudge they need, no personal spite RHEINWEIN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In spain, that land of monks and apes RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 1, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is an ancient mariner Last Line: I shot the albatross Subject(s): Sea RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 2, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun now rose upon the right: %out of the sea came he Last Line: Instead of the cross, the albatross %about my neck was hung Subject(s): Birds; Sea RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 3, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There passed a weary time. Each throat %was parched, and glazed each eye Last Line: And every soul, it passed me by, %like the whizz of my cross-bow Subject(s): Birds; Sea RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 4, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fear thee, ancient mariner! %I fear thy skinny hand! Last Line: The albatross fell off, and sank %like lead into the sea Subject(s): Birds; Love; Sea RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 5, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing Last Line: Quoth he, 'the man hath pennance done, %and pennance more will do' Variant Title(s): The Ancient Mariner Refreshed By Sleep And Rai Subject(s): Sea RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 6, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But tell me, tell me! Speak again Last Line: He'll shrive my soul, he'll wash away %the albatross's blood Subject(s): Birds; Sea RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 7, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This hermit good lives in that wood Last Line: A sadder and wiser man, %he rose the morrow morn Subject(s): Religion; Sea SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, by MARGARETA HORIBA Poem Source First Line: To behold his words is fraught with danger Last Line: Framing your own resurrection SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His soul fared forth (as from the deep home-grove) Last Line: Own them, a beacon to our centuries. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Poetry & Poets SANCTI DOMINICI PALLIUM; A DIALOGUE BETWEEN POET AND FRIEND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I note the moods and feelings men betray Last Line: Impearling a tame wild-cat's whisker'd jaws! Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; England; Religious Discrimination; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; English; Religious Conflict SEA-BREEZE MOANS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea SENTIMENTAL, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose that blushes like the morn SEPARATION, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sworded man whose trade is blood Last Line: Not half enough to part from thee! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting SIBYLLINE LEAF, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not hers SOMETHING CHILDISH, BUT VERY NATURAL; WRITTEN IN GERMANY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had but two little wings Last Line: And still dreams on. Subject(s): Flight; Love; Sleep; Flying SONG, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though veiled in spires of myrtle-wreath Last Line: And only hilt and stump remain. Subject(s): Love SONG TO BE SUNG BY THE LOVERS OF ALL THE NOBLE LIQUORS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye drinkers of stingo and nappy so free SONG: ON HEARING A SONG IN PRAISE OF A LADY'S BEAUTY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not the lily-brow I prize Last Line: The look that love alone can see! Subject(s): Beauty SONGS OF THE PIXIES, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whom the untaught shepherds call Last Line: Extract a blush for love! SONNET, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale roamer through the night thou poor forlorn Last Line: He, the great comforter that rules above! Variant Title(s): The Outcast SONNET, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet mercy! How my very heart has bled Last Line: And called them friends, and healed their noisome sores! Variant Title(s): The Outcast SONNET, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou gentle look, that didst my soul beguile Last Line: Like the bright rainbow on a willowy stream. Variant Title(s): The Outcast SONNET (ON QUITTING SCHOOL FOR COLLEGE), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell parental scenes! A sad farewell Last Line: Mingled its tears with hers -- my widow'd parent lorn. SONNET (ON RECEIVING A LETTER INFORMING ME OF THE BIRTH OF A SON), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they did greet me father, sudden awe Last Line: And he be born again, a child of god! Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery SONNET (TO CHARLES LLOYD), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The piteous sobs that choke the virgin's breath Last Line: Mourns with no transient love the aged friend. SONNET COMPOSED ON A JOURNEY HOMEWARD, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft o'er my brain does that strange fancy roll Last Line: While we wept idly o'er thy little bier! Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery SONNET TO A FRIEND WHO ASKED, HOW I FELT ... MY INFANT TO ME, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Charles, my slow heart was only sad, when first Last Line: And dearer was the mother for the child. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To A Friend Who Asked How I Felt;mother And Child;to A Friend, Who Asked How I Felt, When The Nurse First Presented Subject(s): Mothers; Parents; Parenthood SONNET TO THE AUTUMNAL MOON, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mild splendor of the various-vested night Last Line: Sails, like a meteor kindling in its flight. Subject(s): Moon SONNET TO THE RIVER OTTER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear native brook! Wild streamlet of the west Last Line: Ah! That once more I were a careless child! Variant Title(s): To The River Otter Subject(s): Landscape; Otter (river), Great Britain; Rivers SONNETS ATTEMPTED IN THE MANNER OF CONTEMPORARY WRITERS: 1, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pensive at eve, on the hard world I mused Last Line: Oh my poor heart's inexplicable swell! SONNETS ATTEMPTED IN THE MANNER OF CONTEMPORARY WRITERS: 2, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh I do love thee, meek simplicity Last Line: All very simple, meek simplicity! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Simplicity SONNETS ATTEMPTED IN THE MANNER OF CONTEMPORARY WRITERS: 3, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And this reft house is that, the which he built Last Line: Peeps in fair fragments forth the full-orb'd harvest-moon! Variant Title(s): On A Refund House In A Romantic Country;sonnet: 3. On A Ruined House In A Romantic Country;the House That Jack Built Subject(s): Houses SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 1. TO THE HONORABLE MR. ERSKINE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When british freedom for a happier land Last Line: Still glows wide heaven with his distended blaze! Subject(s): Erskine, Thomas (1750-1823) SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 10. TO ROBERT SOUTHEY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Southey! They melodies steal o'er mine ear Last Line: The imag'd rainbow on a willowy stream. Subject(s): Southey, Robert (1774-1843) SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 11. TO RICHARD SHERIDAN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was some spirit, sheridan! That breathed Last Line: As erst that elder fiend beneath great michael's sword. Subject(s): Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816) SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 12. TO LORD STANHOPE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stanhope! I hail, with ardent hymn, thy name Last Line: One of the people SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 2. BURKE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As late I lay in slumber's shadowy vale Last Line: So might I clasp thee with a mother's joy!' Subject(s): Burke, Edmund (1729-1797) SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 3. PRIESTLEY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though roused by that dark vizir riot rude Last Line: To smile with fondness on her gazing son! Subject(s): Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804) SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 4. LA FAYETTE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when far off the warbled strains are heard Last Line: And slavery's spectres shriek and vanish from the ray! Variant Title(s): Sonnet To La Fayette Subject(s): Lafayette, Marie Joseph, Marquis De SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 5. KOSKIUSKO, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O what a loud and fearful shriek was there Last Line: In the mere wilfulness, and sick despair of soul! Subject(s): Kosciuszko, Thaddeus (1746-1817) SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 6. PITT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not always should the tear's ambrosial dew Last Line: And hurl her thunderbolts with fiercer hand! Subject(s): Pitt, William, The Younger (1759-1806) SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 7. TO W.L. BOWLES (REVISED VERSION), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart has thanked thee, bowles! For those soft strains Last Line: Moved on the darkness of the unformed deep. Variant Title(s): To The Rev. W.l. Bowles (second Version) Subject(s): Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850) SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 7. TO W.L. BOWLES (1ST VERSION), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart has thank'd thee, bowles! For those soft strains Last Line: Mov'd on the darkness of the formless deep! Subject(s): Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850) SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 8. MRS. SIDDONS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when a child on some long winter's night Last Line: Ev'n so thou, siddons! Meltest my sad heart! Subject(s): Siddons, Sarah Kemble (1755-1831) SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 9. TO WILLIAM GODWIN, AUTHOR, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O form'd t'illume a sunless world forlorn Last Line: And told me that her name was happiness. Subject(s): Godwin, William (1756-1836) SONNETS, ATTEMPTED IN THE MANNER OF BOWLES, SELS., by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography SPOTS IN THE SUN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is strict and holy STILLY MURMUR OF THE DISTANT SEA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea STORMS AND OVERWHELMING WAVES, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea SUN (FOR NOW HIS ORB 'GAN SLOWLY SINK), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography SUNSHINE LIES ON THE COTTAGE-WALL, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography SWALLOWS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography TALLEYRAND TO LORD GRENVILLE; A METRICAL EPISTLE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lord! Though your lordship repel deviation Last Line: To pause, and resume the remainder to-morrow. Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Great Britain - Relations With France; Grenville, William Wyndham (1759-1834); Talleyrand, Charles (1754-1838) TELL'S BIRTHPLACE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mark this holy chapel well Last Line: Of slavery, -- the which he broke! Subject(s): Burglen, Switzerland; Tell, William THE AEOLIAN HARP, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My pensive sara! Thy soft cheek reclined Last Line: Peace, and this cot, and thee, heart-honoured maid! Variant Title(s): Lines Composed At Clevedon;the Eolian Harp;effusion: 35, Composed At Clevedo, Somersetshire Subject(s): Harps; Love - Marital; Musical Instruments; Lyres; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE BALLAD OF THE DARK LADIE; A FRAGMENT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath yon birch with silver bark Last Line: And blushing bridal maids. Subject(s): Love THE BLOSSOMING OF THE SOLITARY DATE-TREE. A LAMENT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the blaze of a tropical sun the mountain peaks are the Last Line: Why was I made for love and love denied to me? Subject(s): Date Trees; Love - Complaints; Mothers THE BRITISH STRIPLING'S WAR-SONG (IMITATED FROM STOLBERG), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, noble old warrior! This heart has beat high Last Line: And I too will fight as my forefathers fought! Subject(s): Patriotism THE COMPLAINT OF NINATHOMA, FROM THE SAME, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long will ye round me be swelling Last Line: To howl through my cavern by night. THE COMPOSITION OF A KISS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cupid, if storying legends tell aright Last Line: And breath'd on sara's lovelier lips the rest. Variant Title(s): Kisses Subject(s): Kisses THE DAY-DREAM; FROM AN EMIGRANT TO HIS ABSENT WIFE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou wert here, these tears were tears of light Last Line: I blessed him, tried to laugh, and fell a-weeping! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE DEATH OF THE STARTLING, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pity, mourn in plaintive tone Last Line: Softly stroke the stiffened wing. Subject(s): Death - Animals; Starlings THE DELINQUENT TRAVELLERS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some are home-sick - some two or three Last Line: Are your delinquent travellers! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE DESTINY OF NATIONS; A VISION, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auspicious reverence! Hush all meaner song Last Line: And savage agony. Subject(s): Joan Of Arc (1412-1431) THE DEVIL'S WALK [ON EARTH], by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From his brimstone bed at break of day Last Line: It was general conflagration. Variant Title(s): The Devil's Thoughts Subject(s): Devil; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE DUNGEON, FR. OSORIO, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And this place our forefathers made for man! Last Line: By the benignant touch of love and beauty. Variant Title(s): The Dungeon Amorist THE EXCHANGE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We pledged our hearts, my love and I Last Line: We had exchanged our hearts indeed. Subject(s): Courtship; Love THE FADED FLOWER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ungrateful he, who pluck'd thee from thy stalk Last Line: Tasted her vernal sweets, but tasted to destroy!' THE FOSTER MOTHER'S TALE (1), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never saw the man whom you describe Last Line: He liv'd and died among the savage men. Subject(s): Mothers THE GARDEN OF BOCCACCIO, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of late, in one of those most weary hours Last Line: With that sly satyr peeping through the leaves! Subject(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Gardens & Gardening THE GOOD GREAT MAN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How seldom, friend! A good great man inherits Last Line: Himself, his maker, and the angel death. Variant Title(s): Complaint [and Reproof];the Reward Of The Just Subject(s): Consolation THE HAPPY HUSBAND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft, oft methinks, the while with thee Last Line: That seems, yet cannot greater be! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER [DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED], by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows Last Line: Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mnemonics; Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey THE HOUR WHEN WE SHALL MEET AGAIN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dim hour! That sleep'st on pillowing clouds afar Last Line: His pitying mistress mourns, and mourning heals! THE IMPROVISATORE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are the words? Last Line: And that is next to best! Subject(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Dramatists; Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists THE KEEP-SAKE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tedded hay, the first fruits of the soil Last Line: And own thenceforth no other name but mine! Subject(s): Memory THE KISS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One kiss, dear maid! I said and sighed Last Line: The gentle violence of joy. THE KNIGHT'S TOMB, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the grave of sir arthur o'kellyn Last Line: His soul is with the saints, I trust. Subject(s): Graves; Peace; Tombs; Tombstones THE MAD MONK, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a voice from etna's side Last Line: Down thro' the forest I pursu'd my way. THE MADMAN AND THE LETHARGIST, AN EXAMPLE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quoth dick to me, as once at college Last Line: But as for th'example, 'tis a lie!' THE NETHERLANDS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water and windmills, greenness, islets green Last Line: And water seen -- Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE NIGHT-SCENE; A DRAMATIC FRAGMENT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You loved the daughter of don manrique Last Line: And lazy snakes trail o'er the level ruins! THE NIGHTINGALE; A CONVERSATION POEM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No cloud, no relique of the sunken day Last Line: Sweet nightingale! Once more, my friends! Farewell. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE NOSE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye souls unus'd to lofty verse Last Line: I perish in the blaze while I the blaze admire. Subject(s): Noses THE OLD MAN OF THE ALPS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger! Whose eyes a look of pity show Last Line: In that unchanging realm, where love reigns evermore! Subject(s): Old Age THE OLD MAN'S SIGH. A SONNET, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dewdrops are the gems of the morning Last Line: Whose total being is act, alone remain behind! Subject(s): Old Age THE OVIDIAN ELEGIAC METRE, DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column Last Line: In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. Subject(s): Mnemonics; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Poetry & Poets THE PAINS OF SLEEP, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere on my bed my limbs I lay Last Line: And whom I love, I love indeed. Subject(s): Love; Sleep THE PANG MORE SHARP THAN ALL; AN ALLEGORY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He too has flitted from his secret nest Last Line: Is kindness counterfeiting absent love! Subject(s): Love THE PICTURE, OR THE LOVER'S RESOLUTION, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through weeds and thorns, and matted underwood Last Line: And I may be her guide the long wood through. Subject(s): Love THE PRODUCTION OF A YOUNG LADY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As oft mine eye with careless glance Last Line: Sara Variant Title(s): The Silver Thimble THE RAVEN; A CHRISTMAS TALE, TOLD BY A SCHOOL-BOY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Underneath an old oak tree Last Line: They had taken his all, and revenge it was sweet! Subject(s): Ravens THE REPROOF AND REPLY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fie, mr. Coleridge! - and can this be you Last Line: "the eighth commandment was not made for bards!""'" Subject(s): Crime & Criminals THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is an ancient mariner Last Line: He rose the morrow morn. Variant Title(s): The Rime Of The Ancyent Marinere (1834) Subject(s): Albatrosses; Birds; Curses; Mysticism; Sailing & Sailors; Supernatural; Seamen; Sails THE ROSE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As late each flower that sweetest blows Last Line: I'll fix my empire here.' THE SIGH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When youth his faery reign began Last Line: Still, mary! Still I sigh for thee. THE SNOWDROP, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear no more, thou timid flower Last Line: A snow-drop mid the snow. Variant Title(s): The Apotheosis, Or The Snow-drop Subject(s): Consolation; Snowdrops (plants) THE SOLDIER'S RETURN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O! Day thrice lovely! When at length the soldier Last Line: The faithful tender arms with mute embracing. Subject(s): Courage; War; Valor; Bravery THE SUICIDE'S ARGUMENT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere the birth of my life, if I wished it or no Last Line: Then die -- if die you dare! Subject(s): Suicide THE THREE GRAVES: PART 3, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grapes upon the vicar's wall Last Line: She saw some frightful thing. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE THREE GRAVES: PART 4, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To see a man tread over graves Last Line: And never she smiled after. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE TWO FOUNTS; ADDRESSED TO A LADY ON HER RECOVERY ... FROM PAIN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas my last waking thought, how it could be Last Line: Hoard for thyself the pain, thou wilt not give! Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THE TWO ROUND SPACES ON THE TOMB-STONE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The devil believes that the lord will come Last Line: For they are cock-sure of the fellow below. Subject(s): Mackintosh, Sir James (1765-1832) THE VISIONARY HOPE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sad lot, to have no hope! Though lowly kneeling Last Line: Such strength that he would bless his pains and live. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism THE VISIT OF THE GODS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never, believe me, / appear the immortals Last Line: Forbids me to die! Subject(s): Immortality THE WANDERINGS OF CAIN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Encinctured with a twine of leaves Last Line: Has he no friend, no loving mother near? Variant Title(s): The Child In The Wilderness;the Fruit Plucker Subject(s): Boys THE WIFE OF FERGUS; A MONODRAMA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cease -- cease your torments! Spare the sufferers Last Line: No guilty fear in death. Subject(s): Marriage; Murder; Regicide; Scotland; Suicide; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WILLS OF THE WISP; A SAPPHIC, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lunatic witch-fires! Ghosts of light and motion Last Line: Black-ey'd rebecca! Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE YELLOW HAMMER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spruce and limber yellow-hammer Last Line: With notes as of one who brass is filing. Subject(s): Birds; Craftsmanship THERE WAS A KNIGHT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a knicht riding frae the east Last Line: As the doo flies owre the mulberry tree THIS LIME-TREE BOWER MY PRISON, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, they are gone, and here must I remain Last Line: No sound is dissonant which tells of life. Subject(s): Lamb, Charles (1775-1834) THITHER WHERE HE LIES BURIED, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love THREE FRIENDS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hath he not always treasures, always friends THREE SORTS OF FRINDS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou friendships differ endless in degree TIME, REAL AND IMAGINARY; AN ALLEGORY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the wide level of a mountain's head Last Line: And knows not whether he be first or last. Subject(s): Fables; Time; Allegories TO A CERTIAN MODERN NARCISSUS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do call, dear jesus, whene'er my way you come TO A CHILD, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little miss fanny TO A CRITIC, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most candid, what if I TO A FRIEND, TOGETHER WITH AN UNFINISHED POEM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus far my scanty brain hath built the rhyme Last Line: And praise him gracious with a brother's joy! TO A FRIEND, WHO HAD DECLARED INTENTION OF WRITING NO MORE POETRY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear charles! Whilst yet thou wert a babe, I ween Last Line: The illustrious brow of scotch nobility! Subject(s): Lamb, Charles (1775-1834) TO A LADY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, dearest anna, why so grave? TO A LADY, WITH FALCONER'S 'SHIPWRECK', by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Not by cam or isis, famous streams Last Line: A tear for falconer, wilt remember me. Subject(s): Falconer, William (1732-1769) TO A PRIMROSE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy smiles I note, sweet early flower TO A PROUD PARENT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy babes ne'er greet thee with the father's name TO A VAIN YOUNG LADY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Didst thou think less of thy dear self TO A WELL-KNOWN MUSICAL CRITIC, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O! - o - ! Of you we complain Subject(s): Music Criticism And Critics TO A YOUNG ASS; ITS MOTHER BEING TETHERED NEAR IT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor little foal of an oppressed race Last Line: The aching of pale fashion's vacant breast! Subject(s): Donkeys; Burros TO A YOUNG LADY ON HER RECOVERY FROM A FEVER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why need I say, louisa dear Last Line: And heaven is overflowing! TO A YOUNG LADY, WITH A POEM ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Much on my early youth I love to dwell Last Line: From flattery's night-shade: as he feels he sings. Subject(s): French Revolution (1789) TO AN INFANT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Cease thy tears and sobs, my little life Last Line: Meek nurse of souls through their long infancy! Subject(s): Babies; Infants TO AN UNFORTUNATE WOMAN AT THE THEATRE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maiden, that with sullen brow Last Line: And embathe in heavenly light. TO AN UNFORTUNATE WOMAN, WHOM THE AUTHOR HAD KNOWN ..., by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Myrtle leaf that, ill besped Last Line: Flung to fade, to rot and die. TO ASRA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are there two things, of all which men possess Last Line: Thy lot, methinks, were heaven, thy age, eternity! Subject(s): Love TO BABY BATES, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You come from o'er the waters TO C. LLOYD, ON HIS PROPOSING TO DOMESTICATE WITH THE AUTHOR, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mount, not wearisome and bare and steep Last Line: Now may heaven realise this vision bright! Variant Title(s): To A Young Friend (charles Lloyd) On His Proposing To Domesticate With Author;to A Young Friend On His Proposing To Domesticate With The Author TO DISAPPOINTMENT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence! Thou fiend of gloomy sway Last Line: Dare her slow return to mourn! TO EARL STANHOPE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not, stanhope! With the patriot's doubtful name Last Line: Champion of freedom and her god! Rejoice! TO EDWARD IRVING, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend pure of heart and fervent! We have learnt TO FORTUNE: ON BUYING A TICKET IN THE IRISH LOTTERY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Promptress of unnumber'd sighs Last Line: And yield the unsunn'd stranger to the western gale! Subject(s): Lotteries TO MARY PRIDHAM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear tho' unseen! Tho' I have left behind Last Line: A father's blessing on thee, gentle maid! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MATILDA BETHAM, FROM A STRANGER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Matilda! I have heard a sweet tune played Last Line: And exultation even in strangers' hearts? TO MISS A. T., by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Verse, pictures, music, thoughts both grave and gay Last Line: Such should thine album be, for such art thou, sweet maid! TO MISS BRUNTON WITH HIS TRANSLATION OF WRANGHAM'S LATIN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That darling of the tragic muse Last Line: New rays of pleasance trembling to the heart. Subject(s): Brunton, Elizabeth TO MY CANDLE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good candle, thou that with thy brother, fire TO NATURE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It may indeed be phantasy, when I Last Line: Even me, the priest of this poor sacrifice. Subject(s): Religion; Theology TO ONE WHO PUBLISHED IN PRINT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two things hast thou made known to half the nation Last Line: It shames me to have call'd a wretch, like thee, my friend! TO POVERTY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low in a barren vale I see thee sit TO THE AUTHOR OF 'THE ROBBERS' (SCHILLER), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Schiller! That hour I would have wished to die Last Line: Then weep aloud in a wild ecstasy! Variant Title(s): Sonnet To The Author Of The Robbers Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Schiller, Johann Von (1759-1805); Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von TO THE AUTHOR OF POEMS PUBLISHED ANONYMOUSLY (JOSEPH COTTLE), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unboastful bard! Whose verse concise yet clear Last Line: With fruits and flowers she loads the tempest-honour'd ground. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO THE EVENING STAR, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O meek attendant of sol's setting blaze Last Line: Her spirit in thy kindred orb, o star benign! TO THE MUSE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' no bold flights to thee belong Last Line: Whose hues gay-varying wanton in the sun. TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sister of love-lorn poets, philomel Last Line: She thrills me with the husband's promised name! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Poetry & Poets TO THE REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE OF OTTERY ST. MARY, DEVON, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A blessed lot hath he, who having passed Last Line: Will calm it down, and let thy love forgive it! TO THE REV. W.J. HORT, WHILE TEACHING A YOUNG LADY ... ON HIS FLUTE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! Ye clamorous cares! Be mute Last Line: And I will thank thee with a raptur'd tear. Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors TO THE YOUNG ARTIST, KAYSER OF KASERWERTH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kayser! To whom, as to a second self Last Line: Be wise! Be happy! And forget not me. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters TO TWO SISTERS; A WANDERER'S FAREWELL, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To know, to esteem, to love, - and then to part Last Line: And shine in the eye, of all the world beside. Subject(s): Farewell; Sisters; Parting TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of the wise! And teacher of the good! Last Line: And when I rose, I found myself in prayer. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) TOWN AND COUNTRY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For I was reared %in the great city, pent Subject(s): Country Life TWAS SWEET TO KNOW IT ONLY POSSIBLE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography TWO WEDDED HEARTS; FRAGMENT: 1, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two wedded hearts, if e'er were such Last Line: Die into an intenser life/ Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TWO WEDDED HEARTS; FRAGMENT: 2, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The builder left one narrow rent Last Line: And union absolute of love. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love UBI THESAURUS IBI COR, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I mix in life, and labour to seem free Last Line: And every impulse from thy influence springs. VER PERPETUM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The early year's fast-flying vapour stray Last Line: Screen'd by those clouds and cherish'd by those showers! Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed VERSES ADDRESSED TO J. HORNE TOOKE ... WESTMINISTER ELECTION, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Britons! When last ye met, with distant streak Last Line: Not to the tyrants but the tyranny! Subject(s): Politics & Government; Tooke, John Horne (1736-1812) VERSES TRIVOCULAR, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of one scrap of science I've evidenced ocular Last Line: So with them will I finish these verses trivocular. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets VOICES OF THE ANGELS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around, around, flew each sweet sound W. H. EHEU!, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath this stone does william hazlitt lie Last Line: He died like one who dared not hope to live. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hazlitt, William (1778-1830) WHAT IS AN EPIGRAM?, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole Last Line: Its body brevity, and wit its soul. WHAT IS LIFE?, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Resembles life what once was deemed of light Last Line: A war-embrace of wrestling life and death? Subject(s): Life WHAT IS REASON?, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er the mist, that stands 'twixt god and thee Last Line: Which thou hadst seen, had that been shaken off. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals WHERE CAM HIS STEALTHY FLOWINGS MOST DISSMEBLES, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography WISDOM IN FOLLY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tom slothful talks, as slothful tom beseems WITH FIELDING'S AMELIA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Virtues and woes alike too great for man Last Line: In all but sorrows shall amelias be! WORK WITHOUT HOPE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair Last Line: And hope without an object cannot live. Variant Title(s): In Springtime;a Dream Of Spring Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Spring; Work; Workers WORLD SO HUSHED!, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea WORLD THAT SPIDERY WITCH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I speak in figures inward thoughts and woes Last Line: But cease the prelude and resume the lay WRITTEN AFTER A WALK BEFORE SUPPER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' much averse, dear jack, to flicker Last Line: But stop, my muse! For here comes supper. WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Parry seeks the polar ridge Last Line: The public little knows -- the publisher too much. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; North Pole; Parry, William Edward (1790-1855) YON CRESCENT MOON AS FIXED AS IF IT GREW, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography YOUTH AND AGE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Verse, a breeze mid blossoms straying Last Line: And tells the jest without the smile. Subject(s): Friendship; Old Age; Youth YOUTH AND AGE: NOTE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the tenth day of september Last Line: [the watch and clock do both agree] Subject(s): Poetry & Poets |
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