Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( KOH-lə-rij; 21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd.

He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical works were highly influential, especially in relation to William Shakespeare, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking cultures. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases, including 'suspension of disbelief'. He had a major influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson and American transcendentalism. Throughout his adult life, Coleridge had crippling bouts of anxiety and depression; it has been speculated that he had bipolar disorder, which had not been defined during his lifetime. He was physically unhealthy, which may have stemmed from a bout of rheumatic fever and other childhood illnesses. He was treated for these conditions with laudanum, which fostered a lifelong opium addiction.

Coleridge had a turbulent career and personal life with a variety of highs and lows, but his public esteem grew after his death, and he became considered one of the most influential figures in English literature. For instance, a 2018 report by The Guardian labelled him 'a genius' who had progressed into 'one of the most renowned English poets.' Organisations such as the Church of England celebrate his work during public events, such as a 'Coleridge Day' in June, with activities including literary recitals.

Poems

  • (Fragment 2) I know 'tis but a Dream, yet feel more anguish Read Poem
  • (Fragment 8)Thicker than rain-drops on November thorn Read Poem
  • A Broken Friendship Read Poem
  • A Child's Evening Prayer Read Poem
  • A Christmas Carol Read Poem
  • A Couplet, Written In A Volume Of Poems Presented By Mr. Coleridge To Dr. A. Read Poem
  • A Day Dream Read Poem
  • A Mathematical Problem Read Poem
  • A Soliloquy Of The Full Moon, She Being In A Mad Passion Read Poem
  • A Tombless Epitaph Read Poem
  • About The Nightingale Read Poem
  • Absence: A Farewell Ode On Quitting School For Jesus College Read Poem
  • Addressed To A Young Man Of Fortune Who Abandoned Himself To An Indolent And Causeless Melancholy Read Poem
  • Answer To A Child's Question Read Poem
  • Aplolgia Pro Vita Sua Read Poem
  • As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood (fragment) Read Poem
  • Brockley Coomb Read Poem
  • Christabel Read Poem
  • Cologne Read Poem
  • Come, come thou bleak December wind (fragment) Read Poem
  • Composed At Clevedon, Somersetshire Read Poem
  • Constancy To An Ideal Object Read Poem
  • Dejection: An Ode Read Poem
  • Desire Read Poem
  • Despair Read Poem
  • Domestic Peace Read Poem
  • Duty Surviving Self-Love, The Only Sure Friend Of Declining Life. A Soliloquy Read Poem
  • Elegy, Imitated From One Of Akenside's Blank-Verse Inscriptions Read Poem
  • Epitaph Read Poem
  • Epitaph On An Infant Read Poem
  • Epitaph On An Infant. Read Poem
  • Fancy In Nubibus, Or The Poet In The Clouds Read Poem
  • Fears In Solitude. Written In April, 1798, During The Alarm Of An Invasion Read Poem
  • Fire, Famine, And Slaughter : A War Eclogue Read Poem
  • Forbearance Read Poem
  • Fragment Read Poem
  • France. An Ode Read Poem
  • From 'Religious Musings' Read Poem
  • Frost At Midnight Read Poem
  • Genevieve Read Poem
  • Glycine's Song Read Poem
  • Hexameters Read Poem
  • Home-Sick. Written In Germany Read Poem
  • Human Life, On The Denial Of Immortality Read Poem
  • Hymn Before Sun-rise, In The Vale Of Chamouni Read Poem
  • Imitated From Ossian Read Poem
  • Imitated From The Welsh Read Poem
  • In The Manner Of Spenser Read Poem
  • Inscription For A Fountain On A Heath Read Poem
  • Kisses Read Poem
  • Kubla Khan Read Poem
  • Lewti, Or The Circassian Love-Chaunt Read Poem
  • Life Read Poem
  • Limbo Read Poem
  • Lines Read Poem
  • Lines Composed In A Concert-Room Read Poem
  • Lines On A Friend, Who Died Of A Frenzy Fever, Induced By Calumnious Reports Read Poem
  • Lines On Observing A Blossom On The First Of February, 1796 Read Poem
  • Lines Suggested By The Last Words Of Berengarius. Ob. Anno Dom. 1088 Read Poem
  • Lines To A Beautiful Spring In A Village Read Poem
  • Lines To W. L. While He Sang A Song To Purcell's Music Read Poem
  • Lines Written After A Walk Before Supper Read Poem
  • Lines Written At The King's-Arms, Ross, Formerly The House Of The 'Man Of Ross' Read Poem
  • Lines Written In The Album At Elbingerode, In The Hartz Forest Read Poem
  • Love Read Poem
  • Love's Apparition and Evanishment: An Allegoric Romance Read Poem
  • Melancholy. A Fragment. Read Poem
  • Metrical Feet Read Poem
  • Monody On The Death Of Chatterton Read Poem
  • Ode To Georgiana, Duchess Of Devonshire, On The Twenty-Fourth Stanza In Her 'Passage Over Mount Goth Read Poem
  • Ode To Sara, In Answer To A Letter From Bristol Read Poem
  • Ode To The Departing Year Read Poem
  • Ode To Tranquillity Read Poem
  • On A Connubial Rupture In High Life Read Poem
  • On A Ruined House In A Romantic Country Read Poem
  • On An Infant Which Died Before Baptism Read Poem
  • On Donne's Poetry Read Poem
  • On Revisiting The Sea-Shore, After Long Absence, Under Strong Medical Recommendation Not To Bathe Read Poem
  • On The Christening Of A Friend's Child Read Poem
  • Phantom Read Poem
  • Psyche Read Poem
  • Reason Read Poem
  • Recollections Of Love Read Poem
  • Reflections On Having Left A Place Of Retirement Read Poem
  • Religious Musings : A Desultory Poem Written On The Christmas Eve Of 1794 Read Poem
  • Sea-ward, white gleaming thro' the busy scud (fragment) Read Poem
  • Something Childish, But Very Natural. Written In Germany Read Poem
  • Song Read Poem
  • Songs of the Pixies Read Poem
  • Sonnet I. Read Poem
  • Sonnet II. On A Discovery Made Too Late Read Poem
  • Sonnet III. Read Poem
  • Sonnet IV. To The River Otter Read Poem
  • Sonnet IX. To Priestley Read Poem
  • Sonnet V. Read Poem
  • Sonnet VI. Read Poem
  • Sonnet VII. To Burke Read Poem
  • Sonnet VIII. To Mercy Read Poem
  • Sonnet X. To Erskine Read Poem
  • Sonnet XI. To Sheridan Read Poem
  • Sonnet XII. To Mrs. Siddons Read Poem
  • Sonnet XIII. To La Fayette Read Poem
  • Sonnet XIV. Composed While Climbing The Left Ascent Of Brockley Coomb, In The County Of Somerset Read Poem
  • Sonnet XIX. To A Friend, Who Asked How I Felt When The Nurse First Presented My Infant To Me Read Poem
  • Sonnet XV. To Schiller Read Poem
  • Sonnet XVI. To Earl Stanhope Read Poem
  • Sonnet XVII. Composed On A Journey Homeward; The Author Having Received Intelligence Of The Birth O Read Poem
  • Sonnet XVIII. To The Autumnal Moon Read Poem
  • Sonnet XX. Read Poem
  • Sonnet XXI. Read Poem
  • Sonnet XXII. To Simplicity Read Poem
  • Tell's Birth-Place. Imitated From Stolberg Read Poem
  • The Aeolian Harp Read Poem
  • The Alienated Mistress; A Madrigal. (From An Unfinished Melodrama) Read Poem
  • The Ballad Of The Dark Ladie. A Fragment. Read Poem
  • The Blossoming Of The Solitary Date-Tree. A Lament Read Poem
  • The Complaint Of Ninathoma Read Poem
  • The Destiny Of Nations. A Vision. Read Poem
  • The Devil's Thoughts Read Poem
  • The Dungeon Read Poem
  • The Exchange Read Poem
  • The Faded Flower Read Poem
  • The Foster Mother's Tale. A Dramatic Fragment Read Poem
  • The Garden Of Boccaccio Read Poem
  • The Good, Great Man Read Poem
  • The Happy Husband Read Poem
  • The Hour When We Shall Meet Again Read Poem
  • The Improvisatore, Or, 'John Anderson, My Jo, John' Read Poem
  • The Keepsake Read Poem
  • The Knight's Tomb Read Poem
  • The Moon, how definite its orb! (fragment) Read Poem
  • The Netherlands (fragment) Read Poem
  • The Night-Scene : A Dramatic Fragment. Read Poem
  • The Nightingale : A Conversation Poem Read Poem
  • The Pains Of Sleep Read Poem
  • The Pang More Sharp Than All. An Allegory Read Poem
  • The Picture, Or The Lover's Resolution Read Poem
  • The Presence Of Love Read Poem
  • The Raven. Christmas Tale, Told By A School-Boy To His Little Brothers And Sisters Read Poem
  • The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Read Poem
  • The Rose Read Poem
  • The Sigh Read Poem
  • The Suicide's Argument Read Poem
  • The Three Graves. A Fragment Of A Sexton's Tale Read Poem
  • The Three Sorts of Friends (fragment) Read Poem
  • The Two Founts. Stanzas Addressed To A Lady On Her Recovery, With Unblemished Looks, From A Severe A Read Poem
  • The Virgin's Cradle-Hymn. Copied From A Print Of The Virgin, In A Roman Catholic Village In Germany Read Poem
  • The Visionary Hope Read Poem
  • The Visit Of The Gods. Imitated From Schiller Read Poem
  • This Lime-Tree Bower, My Prison Read Poem
  • Time, Real And Imaginary. An Allegory Read Poem
  • To A Friend Who Had Declared His Intention Of Writing No More Poetry Read Poem
  • To A Friend, In Answer To A Melancholy Letter Read Poem
  • To A Friend, With An Unfinished Poem Read Poem
  • To A Lady, Offended By A Sportive Observation That Women Have No Souls Read Poem
  • To A Lady, With Falconer's 'Shipwreck' Read Poem
  • To A Primrose Read Poem
  • To A Young Ass, Its Mother Being Tethered Near It Read Poem
  • To A Young Lady, With A Poem On The French Revolution Read Poem
  • To A Young Lady. On Her Recovery From A Fever Read Poem
  • To An Infant Read Poem
  • To An Unfortunate Woman At The Theatre Read Poem
  • To An Unfortunate Woman, Whom The Author Had Known In The Days Of Her Innocence Read Poem
  • To Asra Read Poem
  • To C. Lloyd, On His Proposing To Domesticate With The Author Read Poem
  • To Nature Read Poem
  • To Sara Read Poem
  • To the Nightingale Read Poem
  • To the Reverend George Coleridge, of Ottery St. Mary, Devon Read Poem
  • To William Wordsworth. Composed On The Night After His Recitation Of A Poem On The Growth Of An Indi Read Poem
  • Water Ballad Read Poem
  • What if you slept ... Read Poem
  • What Is An Epigram? Read Poem
  • What Is Life? Read Poem
  • When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt (fragment) Read Poem
  • Whom should I choose for my Judge? (fragment) Read Poem
  • Work Without Hope Read Poem
  • Written In Early Youth. The Time,--An Autumnal Evening Read Poem
  • Youth And Age Read Poem
  • Zapolya (excerpts) Read Poem
  • Constancy to an Ideal Object Read Poem
  • The Eolian Harp Read Poem
  • Fragment 1: Sea-ward, white gleaming thro' the busy scud Read Poem
  • Fragment 10: The Three Sorts of Friends Read Poem
  • Fragment 2: I know 'tis but a Dream, yet feel more anguish Read Poem
  • Fragment 3: Come, come thou bleak December wind Read Poem
  • Fragment 4: As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood Read Poem
  • Fragment 5: Whom should I choose for my Judge? Read Poem
  • Fragment 6: The Moon, how definite its orb! Read Poem
  • Fragment 7: When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt Read Poem
  • Fragment 9: The Netherlands Read Poem
  • France: An Ode Read Poem
  • Frost at Midnight Read Poem
  • Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni Read Poem
  • Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath Read Poem
  • The Pains of Sleep Read Poem
  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834) Read Poem
  • Something Childish, but Very Natural Read Poem
  • Sonnet: On Receiving a Letter Informing Me of the Birth of a Son Read Poem
  • This Lime-tree Bower my Prison Read Poem
  • Work without Hope Read Poem
  • Youth and Age Read Poem