Samuel Coleridge
Samuel Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridgewas an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases,...
apple bare branch general seasons shall sing sit snow summer sweet therefore whether
Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,/ Whether the summer clothe the general earth/ With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing / Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch / Of mossy apple tree.
fall frost hang heard ministry quietly secret shall shining silent whether
Whether the eave-drops fall / Heard only in the trances of the blast, / Or if the secret ministry of frost / Shall hang them up in silent icicles, / Quietly shining to the quiet moon.
crawl legs
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs / Upon the slimy sea.
house life mates youth
Life is but thought; so think I will, That youth and I are house mates still
hidden month night noise quiet sleeping woods
A noise like of a hidden brook. / In the leafy month of June, / That to the sleeping woods all night / Singeth a quiet tune.
rush stars stride
The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: / At one stride comes the dark.
heavy wolf
When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, / And the owlet whoops to the wolf below.