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.
house life mates youth
Life is but thought; so think I will, That youth and I are house mates still
greater ideas mankind possess possessed wise
Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
discovers hasten heart
Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it
beneath demon haunted holy moon savage woman
A savage place! as holy and enchanted / As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted / By woman wailing for her demon lover!
harbour ship
The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,/ Merrily did we drop.
counted seventy several
I counted two and seventy stenches, / All well defined, and several stinks!
anchors april clearing happiness health monday sail sound voices
Signals, Drums, Guns, Bells, & the sound of Voices weighing up & clearing Anchors ... Monday April 9th, 1804, really set sail ... No health or Happiness without Work.
gross seen shown support tolerance
I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance
falling melody rises
In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; / In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.
caves miracle rare sunny
It was a miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
dances hanging last looks red twig
The one red leaf, the last of its clan, / That dances as often as dance it can, / Hanging so light, and hanging so high, / On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
carried however itself minds weak
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.
advice deeper dwells longer softer
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.